UPDATE: Wednesday, Eyewitness News told you about the Kansas Food Bank's need for volunteers to pack food for the "Food 4 Kids" program. The program makes sure kids have food when they're away from school

Since our story Wednesday night, so many jumped in to help, the food bank had several lines running Thursday to pack the food.

"Every time we put out that call for that need for help, whether it be for food, whether it be for volunteers; the community responds just significantly and greatly and we couldn't be more proud," says Debi Kreutzman with the Kansas Food Bank.

To volunteer with the food bank, call 316-265-3663. You can help at the Kansas Food Bank from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

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With the holidays fast approaching, the Kansas Food Bank is in desperate need of help. Not of food, but of volunteers to pack food for kids in need.

The Food Bank currently does not have enough to make their last distribution of the year to kids in the Hutchinson area. These are kids who receive packets of non-parishable food through the Food 4 Kids Program. That food is distributed on Fridays, to 377 Kansas schools, to give the kids food on the weekends.

Every day volunteers like Mark Mohesky are at the Food Bank helping pack food for the 6,110 kids in Food for Kids program.

"When we learned that there are thousands of Wichita area kids that aren't able to have that privilege, we felt an obligation to help," said Mohesky.

But lately, the number of volunteers, who help pack these bags, have decreased. In turn that's created a shortage of 80 of these pallets filled with more than 20,000 food packets.

"This is an urgency, because we make our last distribution to the Hutchinson area and up in there, on December 19th, and at this time, we don't have enough product to meet that need," said Larry Gunkel, Food 4 Kids Manager with the Kansas Food Bank.

They're currently short 80 pallets or about 20,500 food packets. Each week they need 24 pallets. Gunkel says right now their inventory is similar to living paycheck to paycheck. They're barely keeping up with demand.

"I've managed this program for 13 years and this is the first time that we every really had a call out for urgency or desperation for volunteers," said Gunkel.

The Food Bank can normally accommodate up to 25 people on one of their lines. They've now made a second line available allowing 50 volunteers to help.

"We need is we need an influx of volunteers to assist us in helping assemble the food packets so we can meet that need," said Gunkel.

Whether that's people like Larry Shepherd who haven't volunteered here in years.

"I came down today because I felt like I needed to help the community out," said Shepherd.

Or regulars like Mohesky, "We only spend an hour and we get boxes and boxes and pallets of work done in that hour."

The Food Bank will find a place for you.

"Just come in. We're going to put you to work," said Gunkel.

The Food Bank says if you have a group larger than 10, just all ahead to see if they have room. Questions about volunteering can be made at (316) 265-3663.

Everyone else can just show up Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the warehouse on Douglas.

Again, they need to have more than 20,000 packets ready to ship to Kansas kids by December 21st.