Miracle meals for millions - Fraser Valley Gleaners

` Miracle Meals for Millions - Fraser Valley Gleaners Fraser Valley volunteers turn farmers surplus into meals for the world s hungry Volunteers from the Fraser Valley Gleaners Society make soup. The society makes dried soup mixes from unsaleable donated... More

` Miracle Meals for Millions - Fraser Valley Gleaners Fraser Valley volunteers turn farmers surplus into meals for the world s hungry Volunteers from the Fraser Valley Gleaners Society make soup. The society makes dried soup mixes from unsaleable donated vegetables from farmers for the world s hungry with some 10 million servings a year. Fraser Valley Gleaners Society Lonely Planet isn t likely to be calling anytime soon but the way things are going, the Fraser Valley Gleaners Society could well use some tour guides. What draws visitors to this industrial vegetable processing plant isn t the vegetables as much as the humanitarian spirit inside, a thing to behold in a world that seems sometimes bereft of it. The volunteer-operated FVGS, a non-denominational Christian-based society in Abbotsford, performs small miracles akin to the biblical "feeding of the thousands" with a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish. The Gleaners, however, feed millions of the world s hungry with B. Less