Feed My Starving Children, founded as a Christian nonprofit organization in 1987. It operates through volunteers who pack nutritious meals made up of rice, soy, vitamins and dehydrated vegetables. The agency partners with relief organizations worldwide to distribute meals to starving children. In 2007, Feed My Starving Children offered services through more than 175,000 volunteers who packed over 40 million meal packets. It is funded by the churches, synagogues, schools and corporations. It provides life-saving meals to people from countries affected by natural disaster and places enduring economic despair. The agency offers meals that are distributed in more than 50 countries worldwide through missionary partners at orphanages, schools, clinics, refugee camps and malnourishment centers. It maintains an office in Brooklyn Park, Minn.