BALTIMORE — Aberdeen Proving Ground Federal Credit Union employees volunteered to pack meals for families in need.

They partnered with Moveable Feast as part of APGFCU’s first-ever Volunteer Week.

“This is a part of our weeklong volunteer initiative, rolling out our brand-new volunteer hour benefit for employees,” said Bre Hill, APGFCU’s director of community impact. “Every day this week, 70 volunteers went out to five different organizations to address things like food insecurity, community development, homelessness. So, this is just a part of that week and a way for us to celebrate giving back to the community.”

Demand for emergency food assistance is at its highest. Moveable Feast delivers medically tailored meals to people with chronic illness.

“Volunteers are pretty much everything that we do. It’s kind of like the lifeblood of our organization,” said Isaiah Maki, an executive chef at Moveable Feast. “Every day that we’re open, we have volunteers come in here. I’ve never been here myself a day that we haven’t had volunteers come in. So, every step of the way — from packaging the meals to preparing the meals to bagging the meals — we even have volunteers to come in and help drive and deliver the meals every day. So, they’re there every step of the way of everything that we’re doing here.”

Last year, Moveable Feast delivered more than 427,000 meals to 2,304 people across Maryland.