Feed the Hungry

Feed the Hungry
Every Child Every Day

Thursday 23 June 2011

Take Away Hunger

Providing Solutions one child at a time may seem an uphill battle but thanks your partnership 33,220 children are now being fed daily.

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Thanks to Unicef we are more aware today of  how and where poverty can strike around the world and how since 1990 Global deaths of children has reduced dramatically by a third over that period, from 89 deaths per 1,000 live births to 60 in 2009. 

The good news is that these estimates suggest 12,000 fewer children are dying each day around the world compared to 1990.However the tragedy of preventable child deaths continues. Some 22,000 children under five still die each day, with some 70 per cent of these deaths occurring in the first year of the child’s life.

Stefan reminded us on the program this morning that there are over 2,000 references to helping the poor in the Bible, in Psalm 112:9 we read


They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor,
   their righteousness endures forever;
   their horn will be lifted high in honor.

Which Paul takes the verse up in Corinthians 9 verse 8-10

8 And God is able to bless you abundantly, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work. 9 As it is written:
   “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor;
   their righteousness endures forever.”
 10 Now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the harvest of your righteousness.

A pray that you will have the opportunity to partner with us today  in The US







 

Monday 20 June 2011

New Photos from Nicaragua

Over the past few days, I have been attending a conference, spending some time with the night time community in the area on a drop in Bus, and going to a Craft fair as well as enjoying being with family and friends, and watching the US Masters Golf: hectic weekend one could say. Then I get an email from Nicaragua.
These Photos are from the team that is currently out there, distributing food aid among the children of Blue Fields and Managua. It is a reminder that we are very fortunate people, in a privileged society that can chose to do multiple and obscure events on a daily basis, as though they were just a matter of course.

That privilege also gives us the freedom to chose to help others live beyond their daily existence of scrapping enough together to buy food to live on for the day. Every day is planned around survival.

Missionary Troy Doudy and the New Jerusalem Church in Nicaragua partner with Feed The Hungry to provide daily meals to over 600 children from the poverty stricken areas of Blue Fields and 600 in Managua.

Feed The Hungry takes missions teams to Nicaragua periodically where they minister to many people through prayer and delivering packs of rice and beans to families. In a country where almost half of the nation lives on less than $1 per day, the food packs are a blessing that show the true and practical love of Christ.
Pastor John Terranova from River of Life went on one of these trips and was able to see how meeting the simplest need of food opened the doors “for the Gospel to be preached.” “People are being set free,” said Pastor John, “and lives are being changed. The kingdom of God is being extended through the ministry of Feed The Hungry.”

By providing food to the children we are breaking the poverty trap, which allows the children to be free to go to school,

It cost us less than £4 for us to provide 100 meals, together we can make a difference.

Please follow the link to http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/ to partner with us today.

 





Friday 17 June 2011

Feeding over 8,500 children in Northern Uganda

Childcare Kitgum Servants – Uganda.
Kitgum district is in the northern part of Uganda. It is located between Longitude 320E, and 340E, Latitude 020N and 040 N. It is bordered by the Republic of Sudan in the North, Kotido District in the East, Pader District in the South and Gulu District in the Northwest. Kitgum is almost exclusively an agricultural district.

'You can feel the pain and suffering that the war has caused wherever you go in Kitgum. The children were to afraid to sleep in the villages where they might be kidnapped and be forcibly recruited in the LRA.  They walked many kilometers every day to the relative safety of the night shelters. Most adults lived in the IDP camps (Internally Displaced People).  Their own villages are either too unsafe or just not there: the mud brick huts are just too easy to burn down.  We heard many stories of people perishing in mud-huts set alight by the LRA.’

This is an extract from a journal from 2006, since then peace has come to the area with the LRA chased out of Uganda and Sudan. However the ravages of war are still apparent in the stories of the people and children you meet. For an Australian woman: General Gradma Irene Gleeson as they call her,  not only live through but achieve so much in the last 19 years is more than extraordinary. Her story is an epic  tale in itself, yet her heart is for the people and especially for the children who have gone to Hell and back in the past few years.

Creating not only a safe house or a place of rest, but a place of restoration and hope, working with the children to enable them to reach to their full potential, and if there was no opportunities for their skills to be used elsewhere she has developed the opportunities for them to excel. As part of the endeavour to make this happen Feed the Hungry support the feeding program for the school, which is a significant task as they use 8 tons of Rice, maze and beans every week, to feed over 8,000 children through the 5 different schools they run in the area.

The Schools program has been extended by developing a technical college for the youth to learn building skills, carpentry, metalwork, tailoring and even a driving school, whilst also developing creative opportunities for the young people to express themselves through painting, dance, music, and rap. Guns for guitars is one of those programs helping  child soldiers get over there traumatic experience of being forced into war and being able to release their energy in a positive way. Seeing Hakiim teach rap and dance moves to the younger kids was exquisite, and standing in front of 15ft high murals painted by Everest Otto was extraordinary.

All this would not be possible without your support, as there is no government funding ( though this is becoming closer: please pray for a breakthrough ) or very little from the family members or clans to support Childcare at Kitgum. 

Feed the Hungry are proud to support the work at Kitgum and look forward to supporting Irene and her team, as we see how a pound here can make such a huge impact 4,500 miles away. 

Join our campign today £4 = 100 Meals to help extend our programs across the world to make a difference as has been achieved at Childcare Kitgum Servants  visit  www.feedthehungry.org.uk to see how you can partner with us.








Monday 13 June 2011

Prayer Request from Kenya

Notes from Pastor Chris At the Soweto Academy

Armada - notes from China visit

I just got back from Yushu Qinghai. LQTRA is doing an awesome work in that region. I was amazed that the head of the ministry was a Harvard graduated, already got Spore government head hunted, everything mapped out for his life (thats Singaporean govt for you), in any worldly manner, he has it good going for him and Philip Poh gave everything up and came to Yushu to set up a ministry to rescue the desperately poor and oppressed in Yushu with his young family of 4 children.  We were given chances to preach in a three self church of 3000 and minister to a group of missionaries in the afternoon in Xining. 

The workers in LQTRA are really hard working people coming from all over China, they really tough it out, as guests we were given wood plank huts without heater to sleep, no bath, toilet was manageable.  The HK pastor got beaten by a wild local dog the first night. 

We did mobile clinic, we managed to persuade an old lady who seemed to be dying to go to hospital,  did you know the Tibetan Buddhism called for cut up your head to release the soul out when one dies, and then chop up the body and put it out in the open to let the vultures to eat up, if the vultures did not eat up that body, that mean this person won't come back in the next life. Living Buddha basically mean they found enlightenment and came back this life to save life.

The mobile clinic set up business in the middle of the city, many came, we visited homes and kid schools of Tibetans, Islam people (not so much Han Chinese). After the earthquake the whole town like a tents town, 100% destroyed. Incredibly dusty as every body was trying to build something before winter comes.  Night time temperature is below zero.

Wednesday 8 June 2011

Gwyn on the road to a Charity boost

Gwyn on the road to a Charity boost
By Kate Hallam

A charity worker from Barwell is pushing himself to the limits for others as he takes on a 1250-mile cycle challenge for Feed the Hungry.
Gwyn Williams, operations manager for the charity which provides food for more than 31,000 children across the world, has decided to complete his sponsored bike ride from Barwell to Brosteni in the mountains on northern Romania.

He will be tackling the tough route early next spring, but needs help from the people of the borough to get him there.

Gwyn said. “ The big problem is that I am way overweight and totally unfit but wanted to do something special to celebrate  my 50th birthday, I have bought a bike for £25 off eBay but its bearings are shot and I am finding it hard to get into the swing of training. If somebody out there would like to help me get motivated and help with the organising of the trip, I would really appreciate it.”

Speaking at his Kirkby Road home, he talked about how leaving his job in sales and marketing to work for the non-profit Christian organisation was one of the best decisions of his life.

Despite only being with the charity for eight months, Gwyn has already flown out to various projects in Kenya, Uganda and Romania to see the terrible situation first hand.

“it is amazing getting to Kibera ( A famous slum in Kenya where the charity supports 1,500 children) because the school is right in the centre of the slum we had to go right in there to where it was all happening,” said Gwyn.

“ The Great thing is that now the school has won the award for being the best school in the country which is all down to providing the students with nutritional food to make the difference in their wellbeing; Just seeing the smiles on the kids faces makes it all worth it,”

If you can help Gwyn with organisation or training, get in touch at gwilliams@feedthehungry.org

The Charity also has a new campaign, Take away Hunger, where people can donate £4 to sen 100 meals to hungry street children in Thailand and more countries across the world.

Go to www.feedthehungry.org.uk to find out more information and donate.