The Grace College Gordon Student Recreation Center in Winona Lake was used to host the event.

WARSAW — Final numbers are in from the Feed My Starving Children event that took place over the first week of October at Grace College’s Recreation and Fitness Center.

Last year the event saw almost 6,000 volunteers and packed 1,065,312 meals. This year, event organizers set and achieved a goal of packing more than one million meals. Although the event saw less volunteers than last year, 4,478 people volunteered and prepared 1,073,088 meals for children in need. The prepared meals will feed 2,939 children for an entire year.

For this year’s event, FMSC partnered with Allowing Christ to Shine, an organization dedicated to helping children in Haiti. Hurricane Matthew made land contact with Haiti as a category 4 hurricane on Oct. 4, leaving over 500,000 people without homes. Of the meals prepared, 272,160 were sent directly to Haiti for Hurricane Matthew relief.

Over 1,800 Warsaw Community School students volunteered to pack meals. Other area schools also participated in the event.