Video: MSU Students Package Meals for People in Need

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STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) — Some Mississippi State University students are learning about nutrition, while helping others across the globe.

They’re packaging 10,000 meals for the organization “Stop Hunger Now,” which provides needy people with meals internationally.

The students packed the boxes with soy, rice, vegetables, and protein.

Organizers say this project is about more than just community service.

“The students are not only coming today to participate, but they’re being taught by our food, science, nutrition, and health promotion faculty about what is actually in this meal packet, so they understand a little bit more about the issue,” said April Heiselt, MSU. “Not just, ‘I’m coming to serve today, which is also very important, but also I’ve learned about this, and I can go forward and tell others.'”

Heiselt says “Stop Hunger Now” will distribute the boxes. The group has recently focused on helping Africa.