Simple Hope Hosting Packathon Saturday

Simple Hope, a Menomonee Falls-based nonprofit, is hosting a packathon event to send food to hungry families in Tazania on Saturday.

mission is to provide food and self-sustaining development for those in need in Tanzania, but also educate Americans about the lifestyle lived by those with so little.

Interested participants can sign up for a one-hour shift to volunteer between at 8 a.m. and noon. New shifts will begin on the hour with the last shift at noon. Bring your $25 registration fee or sign up online.

Since 2009, Simple Hope has sponsored "pack-a-thons" to prepackage food that gets sent to the hungry in Tanzania.

In November 2009, they held their first event at Menomonee Falls High School, and 400 volunteers packed 63,500 meals in an assembly line fashion. But participants in the pack-a-thons don’t simply pack meals; they also participate in a simulation of what tribal life is like in the rugged Tanzanian wilderness.