PHOTOS: Stop Hunger Now Packs 250K Meals
The event, held at Luther Church of the Redeemer in McLean, also raised more than $62,500.
Editor's Note: The following article was submitted to McLean Patch by Alan Greilsamer with Stop Hunger Now. In three shifts over an eight-hour period on Saturday, November 10, 2012, more than 900 enthusiastic volunteers from Northern Virginia packaged 250,000 meals to help eradicate hunger worldwide. The event, which took place at Luther Church of the Redeemer in McLean, benefitted Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid to countries around the world. “Today’s event is the largest one that Stop Hunger Now has completed this year in the Washington, D.C. area,” said McLean Rotarian Dominic Alexander, the program manager for Stop Hunger Now-National …