It’s important, especially in America, where children have so much, to help kids understand the difference between need and want. At every packing session there are families and teens volunteering—it is refreshing to see, in an age of entitlement mentalities.

When we got home, my little granddaughter acknowledged with gratitude that she is healthy and that she felt so happy to be able to do this small thing for other children who were not.

At bedtime she prayed, “Please God, I hope the food we made for the kids helps them not to have to eat dirt anymore.”