Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) was founded as a nonprofit in 1987 by a Minnesota businessman who witnessed the starving children of Honduras during a humanitarian visit. In 2007 alone, FMSC produced a total of 40-million meals with the assistance of 170,000 volunteers. The 2010 goal is to produce 100-million meals.

About 50 countries have been sent meals in the past, including Angola, Armenia, Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Congo, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Jamaica, Kenya, North Korea, Lesotho, Malawi, Nicaragua, Kyrgystan, Peru, Romania, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Ukraine, Russia, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

FMSC’s meals are delivered to orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps and malnourishment centers on an ongoing basis to help build sustainability. FMSC’s distribution is undertaken by partnering with Christian and humanitarian relief organizations around the world, such as Salesian Missions, Operation Blessing, OC Ministries, UMCOR, Kids Around the World and others.

The meals are specifically designed to save the lives and meet the health needs of severely malnourished and starving children, but also improve the health of children who are in no danger of starvation. With the input from American scientists at major food companies, such as Cargill and General Mills, FMSC developed a formula of:

1. Rice.
2. Extruded soy nuggets (maximum protein at lowest cost).
3. Vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian chicken flavoring.
4. Dehydrated vegetables.

The meals are designed to be easy and safe to transport, simple to make with only boiling water, and culturally acceptable worldwide. A simple bag of food - enough to feed 6 children one meal each - costs $0.90 USD to produce (15 cents/meal).

FMSC has permanent packing locations in Minnesota and Illinois, and also has a Mobile Packing program for churches, youth events and businesses around the USA who wish to assist.

Donation, volunteer and other program information is available on their website.