Photo courtesy of Mennonite Central Committee website

Each year, the Mennonite Central Committee’s mobile meat canner travels across the country, joining volunteers to prepare cans of turkey, beef, chicken, and pork. This December, they will be in Kalona. 

The operation will be held at the Kalona City Maintenance Garage on A Avenue. Set-up is Wednesday, December 6, while the canning will take place on Thursday and Friday, December 7 and 8. 

Cans are sent to countries with a lack of sufficient food sources, or where meat is hard to purchase. In 2022, the meat canning operation shipped more than 574,000 pounds of canned meat to Cuba, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Haiti, Malawi, South Sudan, Ukraine, Zambia, and the United States, including Puerto Rico. 

To volunteer with the Mennonite Central Committee’s mobile meat canning operation, contact Joe Miller at 717-808-2417, or click here.