Volunteers fill backpacks with food at Gleaners' Food Bank in Detroit

DETROIT – More than 40 CEO's and local business leaders took time off from work Thursday to help feed hungry children.

Volunteers helped fill backpacks with food at the Gleaners warehouse in Detroit to distribute food to children which launched Gleaners 2012 hunger free summer program.  

The program is aimed at providing healthy meals for children who rely on free or reduced-price meals during the school year.

"Some of these kids have told me that that's the only meal they get a day so once school is out how do we feed them," said Sandra Pierce, CEO of Charter One Bank.

What gleaners is doing with the help of business leaders is providing 2 million meals throughout the summer.

The program has a fund-raising goal of $670,000 and many businesses have already pledged to match donations.