kids fighting hunger

A local effort is being organized to help the people of West Africa affected by the Ebola crisis. The Central Minnesota Helps Fund through the Central Minnesota Community Foundation is raising money for aid to Liberia.

The organization Kids Fighting Hunger is looking for volunteers for their upcoming "Pack the Mac" event.

Kids Fighting Hunger volunteers prepared and packaged thousands of meals to send to the Philippines today, a country recently devastated by a typhoon.

The organization Kids Fighting Hunger in Sauk Rapids is sending food to the Philippines. Executive Director Pam Beard says they've waited until now to ship the meals the to country devastated by a a typhoon, because they want to make sure they had people in place there to distribute the food.