Volunteers In Augusta Pack Meals To Feed The Hungry In 70 Countries

AUGUSTA — It’s not that Alexis Everett didn’t have other things she could have been doing on a Saturday afternoon, but the 16-year-old from Chelsea said there was nowhere more important for her to be than volunteering alongside her grandmother, scooping cupfuls of soy and rice into bags that will feed hungry people in need in one of 70 countries. Everett joined hundreds of volunteers in packing more than 100,000 meals Saturday for Feed My Starving Children, a Christian nonprofit organization that will distribute the bags of food, each of which contains enough food to provide a meal for about six people, to people in developing nations struggling to find enough food to survive. “I’d rather be doing this,” Everett said.