ANN ARBOR, MI -- Hundreds of volunteers gathered at Pioneer High School Saturday, Nov. 8, to create 50,000 meals to help fight food insecurity.

“Thank you for coming out here and making things right,” said Michael Burwell, executive director of Kids Coalition Against Hunger.

Rob Shiff, a member of the Rotary Club of Ann Arbor and third-year leader for Send Hunger Packing, said more than 200 people pre-registered to volunteer at the school, located at 601 W. Stadium Blvd., but many more came out Saturday to help prepare meals.

“The reason we do this is because 14,500 kids under the age of 12 die each and every day of malnutrition,” Burwell said. “One in five Americans go to bed hungry, and it’s up to us to make sure that doesn’t happen on our watch.”

People gathered at 16 stations, trad

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