West Des Moines, Iowa — Online registration is now available for the seventh “Meals from the Heartland” Annual Hunger Fight. This year’s event will be held Wednesday, August 27th through Saturday, August 30th at Hy-Vee Hall in downtown Des Moines.

Over 15,000 volunteers are needed during this event to reach the goal of packaging 5 million meals. Online registration is now open at www.mealsfromtheheartland.org. Volunteers are needed to package the meals as well as for support positions such as Event Setup, Event Greeter, Floor Support and Nightly Cleanup. This annual event is the largest multiday volunteer food packaging event in the United States.

Meals from the Heartland is a non-profit organization that engages thousands of volunteers annually to package meals for delivery to food insecure children and families in Iowa, the United States and around the world. Since 2008, Meals from the Heartland has packaged more than 40 million meals with the help of over 125,000 volunteers. In 2013 alone, over 33,000 volunteers packaged 8.6 million meals

Meals from the Heartland conducts meal packaging events year round throughout central Iowa and at its new facility, the Patty Cownie Center, home of Meals from the Heartland, 357 Lincoln Street, West Des Moines, Iowa 50265.

(Press Release)