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GRAND TRAVERSE -- For the seventh year, the Kiwanis family of Traverse City is packaging nearly 15,000 meals to be shipped to hungry people around the world, and locally.

The project teams up with Kids Against Hunger Coalition of Michigan.? Kids Against Hunger supply the mobile food packaging equipment.

Today, more than 75 Kiwanis volunteers will meet inside of Traverse City Central High School's cafeteria to assemble these food packages.

Each package contains six nutritious meals, developed by scientists at Cargill, Pillsbury, General Mills, and Archer Daniels Midland.

The Kiwanis clubs sponsored youth clubs from area schools are also taking part in the project.

A total of $4,200 was raised?to support the packaging of the meals

7&4's Meghan Morelli will have more on this story today.

Source: http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=855602

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