Thank you for packing 1,094,472 meals for Haiti!!

The Haiti Million Meal Marathon concluded on Monday night. Shouts of joy and applause broke out in the "Factory" when the last session crossed over the one million goal.

Over 3000 people came from OH, KY and IN to help the children in Haiti. Our goal now is to get this food into a secure warehouse in Haiti before the ravages of the next hurricane season whch begins in just a few months.  

Read more about the event as covered by Channel 5 and the Cincinnati Enquirer:

• Channel 5 TV 
• Cincinnati Enquirer, Sunday Feb 27 
• Cincinnati Enquirer, Monday, Feb 28

Although the volunteers were in great supply, the donations have not been and are much lower than needed. We still need your help for the 72 tons of food ingredients that was purchased and for shipping to Haiti as soon as possible. 

There are a variety ways to help: Matching donations from your employer, donate your car, boat, truck, RV, etc regardless of shape, age or condition AND 10for1.  

Please help us today by check or online donation at DonateNow.

• $54 will pay for a box of 216 meals
• $120 will feed 1 child for 1 year
• $10 will feed 1 child for 1 month

Remember this:  

It only takes 25 cents for us to feed 1 child for 1 day. We know of nothing that is more nutritious or economical than this high protein power pack of nutrition.

Got questions, let us know by email or call the "Factory" at 513-248-4005.

Nov 20 update

The volunteers last Saturday did a super job and manufactured a total of 78,408 meals (11 pallets). A special thank you to the teams from Texas Roadhouse and Mason schools who were both at the factory packing food last Saturday. The funds they raised will greatly assist our effort to feed the hungry!

The production on 11/20 pushed our total production to date to 4,312,008 meals.

November has also been an active month for shipments. We shipped locally to Shared Harvest in Fairfield and the Freestore Food Bank.

Internationally, KAH Cincinnati made shipments as follows:
11/11/10 – Swaziland (shipment to our several partners) – 285,120 meals
11/22/10 – Swaziland (Nazarene Ministries) – 285,120 meals
11/23/10 – Nicaragua – 285,120 meals
KAH Cincinnati shipped a total of almost 900,000 meals in November. We need to thank Don Tedrick and Ron Whitmer for their assistance in helping to get these shipments out the door.

Because we sometimes get donations from other KAH locations that don’t have the ability to ship what they produce, our total shipments now exceed our production, KAH Cincinnati has now shipped a total of 4,444,200 meals.

Everyone from KAH Cincinnati wishes you a blessed Thanksgiving.
Thank you for all your support.

Nov 6, 2010 Update

The pack last Saturday at Messiah Lutheran Church went very well and the three teams packed a total of 61,992 meals. We need to thank everyone who volunteered and were a part of this effort.

To learn more about remote packs, please visit: KAH Packing At Your Place.

The production of 61,992 meals on November 6th pushed our total production to 4,233,600 meals!! We also have made several shipments over the last 10 days totaling 32,832 meals, all going to local organizations (Reach Out Lakota, Shared Harvest and the Free store Food Bank).

This morning we expect to load our next large shipment, a ship container with 285,120 meals headed for Swaziland.

Update on recent shipments

While many are getting the new factory ready, your Cincinnati KAH team was also busy last week making shipments:

On Monday a ship container left Cincinnati with 235,224 meals and 6 pallets of relief supplies going to Children's Intl Lifeline - Haiti.

On Tuesday a ship container left Cincinnati with 277,992 meals and 2 pallets of relief supplies going to Children's Cup Swaziland.

On Friday a ship container left Cincinnati with 242,352 meals and 7 pallets of relief supplies going to Children's Intl Lifeline - Haiti.

While each of these shipments is consigned to just one organization, they are being shared by many partners in Haiti and Swaziland. We also need to thank Dan, Don, and Mike who all helped in the loading of these ship containers. This is an interesting task - sometimes like a jigsaw puzzle trying to get everything to fit!!

KAH Cincinnati shipped a total of 775,568 meals last week!

One other important point, with these three shipments we have now shipped more meals (3,547,368) than we have produced (3,540,240). This is because other KAH organizations in this area sometimes have no way to ship the material they produce in smaller packs and they donate those meals to KAH Cincinnati.


We also need to thank Bill Mead for being the "go to" person for Ethicon. The Ethicon team of some 25 packed our whole Blue Ash factory in a little over 5 hours, what a blessing. This will make our move from Blue Ash much easier - Thank you Bill!

Saturday, July 17

Our last pack at our Blue Ash "factory" sure was a good one! Our volunteers produced a total of 121,176 meals - that is pretty close to 1/2 of a trailer load! This puts our total production to date well past 3.5 Million meals, 3,540,024 meals produced to be exact.

KAH Cincinnati also made a shipment on Saturday as Ernie Burke picked up 14,256 meals for an outreach by a team headed to Harlan, Kentucky. The team is taking our food as well as shoes, socks and back packs full of school supplies for over 250 kids in an elementary school located in Harlan.

We also now have over 1 million meals in inventory which will begin to leave Cincinnati as trucking and ship containers can be arranged. Some will be going to Africa and more going to Haiti as soon as the ports are cleared.

Saturday May 22, 2010

Saturday was a record pack!! 112,756 meals were packed with two fairly full shifts. We have now produced a total of 3,270,024 meals. So you will understand that local needs exist, Foundation Builders will be picking up 7,128 meals (full pallet) early next week for distribution in central Ohio and a large portion of that will go to a food pantry that is running low on food.

3 MILLION MEALS!

Between the pack at Urbancrest Baptist Church on April 24th and the two food packing shifts on Saturday Arpil 26th, the volunteers packed a total of 135,432 meals. Sometime early Saturday afternoon we crossed the 3 million meal mark and KAH Cincinnati has now produced 3,063,744 meals for hungry kids all over the world!

Thank you to everyone has given of their time, talents, and/or treasures!

What a weekend!

After 7 sessions (90 minutes each), 15 packing lines per session, and 1,600 volunteer packers....Christian Life Center Dayton along with KAH Cinci's "Pack at your place" team, packed 301,536 meals for needy children in Swaziland.

Thank you to each of the CLC Dayton leaders and packers as well as the KAH Cinci's "Red Shirt Team", you guys rock!

Since we began operations, KAH Cinci has now packed 2,139,912 meals.

We will be back at our Blue Ash "factory" on December 19 and then we will be taking a Christmas break. We will resume packing every other Saturday starting on January 9, 2010.

We hope you all have a great Christmas!
Thank you for all your help.

Search Institute / YMCA Conference

Last night, KAH-Cincinnati in collaboration with the Search Institute & the YMCA helped 140 youth pack 41,904 in only 2 hours!! We had 14 lines running at one time...a big step up from our normal 4 lines at one time. Everyone did a great job, thank you to Duke Energy, Search Institute, the YMCA, and all the youth from around the country who packed the food.

One group there last night purchased 26 black tee shirts for their team – they were that excited. In fact, their leader asked if they could go home (to CA), raise funds and send the money needed for a pallet for Africa!! How cool is that? Many of the youth didn't want to leave and even stuck around until we were completely out of ingredients. Everyone chipped in and it was a great example of teamwork.

Blue Ash Opening Day!

We are pleased to announce that the "factory" has moved to a larger facility as of Oct 1. The new location is the vacant Kroger property in Blue Ash just off Kenwood Rd. The new "Factory" will allow us to operate more lines, more days,all with even more storage space. Thank you to the management and staff of Kroger for this incredible blessing of support.

Our first Blue Ash pack was last Saturday, Oct 3 and it was a good one! 33,696 meals were prepared in two 2 hour shifts! Thank you to all of our first time volunteer packers at our new location.

September 2009

September 2009 brought our final packing events at the Berean Christian Stores warehouse in West Chester. Just in September alone, all of you helped pack 53,568 meals for starving children "here, there and everywhere"!

The Kids Against Hunger Factory has been operating at Berean Christian Stores since July 2008. Since then, over 1.5 million high protein meals have been produced. That effort required over 105 tons of ingredients and well over 3,000 volunteers working in 2 hour shifts. The demand for the food has grown worldwide sadly as the number of orphans and hungry children continues to grow.

All of us are extremely appreciative of the support and encouragement that Berean Christian Stores has provided to us since we opened. President Bill Simmons and his staff have been extremely supportive to the ministry feeding hungry children.

Saturday August 22, 2009

Last Saturday (8/22/09) was a productive day!

Total meals produced reached 1,525,824, which means we came close to 6.5 pallets produced (46,224). All of that food was packed by volunteers from West Chester Church of the Nazarene in the morning shift and Countryside Nazarene in the afternoon shift. Six pallets of KAH food will go the mission they support in Honduras, called Cocal Gracias.

We also made a shipment today of 7,128 meals (1 pallet) which went to ServeCity and Living Waters in Hamilton.

Remember that we are closed until Saturday September 12th.

Thank you to all our Aug 22 volunteers!

Update from last week's activities....

We are about as close to 1.5 million meals as we can get!!! Total production to date at the end of production on Saturday (8/8/09) was 1,486,728 meals. Below are pictures of some of the volunteer packers that helped prepare almost 30,000 meals last Saturday.

Our next packing event will be Sat Aug 22. Two churches, Countryside Community and West Chester Nazarene will be teaming together to pack for the mission in Honduras that Countryside supports. This is a great thing when two churches come together for the least of these. They have been working as hard as they can on fund raising. Please pray for the pack and for the funds to come in - for the children in Honduras.

Our next packing day after that will be Sat, Sept 12.

The Great American Yard Sales is scheduled for Sat, Sept 19 from 9 AM to 3 PM. Brandy Griffis is point person. The location is the building located on Rt 22:

8432 Old 3c Highway
Maineville, OH 45039

We hope to get a key and alarm code for the building so that we can begin to move items into the building in advance. PLEASE let Brandy know that you can help with many aspects of this even now at bgriffis@fseinc.net. She needs some people to help coordinating now. We will need a lot of help on the event date so let Brandy know if you can do that please as well. Samples of KAH food, t-shirts for sale, baked goods sales, collecting money, etc.... This event will be one of our major and much needed fundraisers for the year. Your help is greatly appreciated. If you have items you would like to donate to be sold at the yard sale, please drop off at the "factory" Aug 22 or Sept 12.

Please pray for the food being shipped to Swaziland. We have sent 4 shipping containers of food for these kids, the good news is that the food is in Swaziland. Prayers are needed to quickly get access to the trains so the food can be delivered to the care points.

July 25, 2009

On Saturday July 25, there was a big storm in the AM that knocked the electricity out for a bit. Emergency lights came on and volunteers sat in the dark while the computer projected the training video! Paul eventually got the lights on (they take time to reset) and we were back in action! We had several groups from local churches as well as a group that came to celebrate a birthday party, together we packed 31,536 meals for starving kids around the world. Thank you to all who volunteered! We are only 43,944 meals from hitting the 1.5 million meal mark!!!

July 18, 2009

A special thanks to the youth group from Milford Bible Church in Pennsylvania who conducted their own packing session on Saturday! All by themselves they packed 20,088 meals! We had to close the team down at 11:30 AM, otherwise they would easily have packed 3+ pallets! Not only did they help with a financial donation to pay for some of the ingredients they packed, but they also set up and cleaned up the factory!!! Thanks guys!

More good news...... 10 pallets of food (71,280 meals) destined for the Jean Cadet Restavek Foundation in Haiti left the warehouse this afternoon. This shipment will arrive at Mission Harvest America in Jacksonville FL late tomorrow!

Saturday's packers from Milford Bible Church

July 11, 2009

On July 11, 2009 Kids Against Hunger - Cincinnati celebrated our one year anniversary at the "Factory" located in the Berean Christian Stores natonal support center. To celebrate we had a very successful packing session with 35,372 meals prepared!

It has been quite a year! Over 3000 volunteers used 100 tons of ingredients to make over 1.4 million meals! And hundreds of donors helped by giving as generously as they could.

All of this would not have happened without the help of the leadership and staff at Berean. Working together, we witnessed a miracle of multiplication.

Thank you!

June 27, 2009

Saturday, June 27, 2009 was another great day at the factory! A total of 31,968 meals were packed and ready to be shipped!! Both the AM & PM sessions were full of volunteers ready to make a difference in the lives of children around the world. The packing was a bit more spirited in the afternoon as the PM packers were trying to prepare more meals than the AM session did. The AM packers did win by preparing 17,280 meals.....in 2 hours! Thanks to everyone that served on Saturday, you are appreciated.

Saturday June 13, 2009

Production on Saturday June 13, 2009 was right at 35,000 meals (5 pallets)! This took KAH Cincinnati to 1,344,168 meals produced. With the shipments made from KAH Cincy to Florida for Swaziland you have now shipped a total of 1,176,768 meals. What is actually going to Swaziland (with the help of KAH - New Hope who donated 40 pallets of food) is just about 850,000 meals in three containers.

Thank you to Bill, Don and Neal for making the trip to Dayton to pick up more supplies!

Thank you also to the Gibson family who have volunteered to help as new shift leaders!! If you are interested in serving as a shift leader, please vist: Shift Leaders

The factory is open for both morning and afternoon shifts on June 27th and July 11th.

Thank you to all our volunteer packers on Saturday!!!

May 30, 2009

Another exciting Saturday at the "factory" on May 30! Two shifts producing 4 pallets (28,512 meals). We should note that a team from Bethany UMC worked the morning shift. Bethany held a KAH benefit dinner theater event a little over a week ago to support the packing they did on Saturday. Thank you to everyone at Bethany UMC!!!

The inventory in Dayton (almost 80 pallets of food - 570,240 meals) will begin to move to Florida this week on its way to Swaziland.

Total meals produced by KAH Cincinnati reached 1,316,520 meals as of the end of production on May 30th!

May 16, 2009

What a great day at the "factory" last Saturday!
- 49,342 meals were packed for the Jean R. Cadet Restavec Foundation (almost 7 pallets in one day!)
- Crossroads Community Church brought 50 volunteers as part of their Go Cincinnati event
- For the first time, we had an on site bake sale and generated $108 to help pay for all the ingredients used in the day's packing! Thank you to Cynthia, Susan and everyone who helped!
- The Sack Slavery campaign has already netted $1000 for this pack
- The Cincinnati Enquirer was on site taking pictures

All the food this month will go to the work in Haiti with The Restavec Foundation, one more pack this month on May 30.