Your Chicago: The Volunteers Of Feed My Starving Children

SCHAUMBURG, Ill. (CBS) -- The photos of children all over the world with no food and no hope are heartbreaking. But thousands of miles from despair, in nondescript warehouses in Aurora and Schaumburg, they're changing that.

Six days a week, volunteers come to Feed My Starving Children, where they wash their hands, put on their gloves and hairnets, and start packing small bags of food.

The volunteers include Katie Cullen, an Elmhurst librarian who's been helping out for two years.

"It seems strange that in this day and age there are still people all over the world starving," Cullen tells CBS 2's Rob Johnson. "There are kids in other countries that don't even have anything to eat."

Last year, 515,000 volunteers packed 124 million meals for the hungry in 70 countries. Marilyn Maurella is development director for Feed My Starving Children, a Christian organization that provides food for the starving no matter what their religion.

The organization aims to help children in countries where there are no resources to produce food, Maurella says.

Feed My Starving Children is always looking for volunteers at both their Aurora and Schaumburg locations. It takes about two hours to help pack enough food to feed 30 children for a year.