Meals from the Heartland announced its 18th Annual Hunger Fight packaged 1.47 million meals to support hungry children and families, enough to feed approximately 5,680 children for an entire year. The organization continues to pursue its goal of packaging 2 million meals, encouraging additional volunteers and donors to sign up for nine weekly packaging shifts or to host mobile hunger fight events at their own locations. “We want to thank the thousands of volunteers who showed up last week to reach this monumental number. Recipients of our meals, because of their efforts, will not only receive a nutritious meal but a glimmer of hope for better things to come. We certainly couldn’t achieve this significant accomplishment without their help,” Chuck Current, executive director at Meals from the Heartland, said in a prepared statement. For more information or to volunteer, visit the Meals from the Heartland website.