Feed the Hungry

Feed the Hungry
Every Child Every Day

Friday 18 November 2011

Australian Cricket Team visits Sri Lankan Orphanage

The EveryChild EveryDay program supports 28 different ministries around the world.

Child Action Lanka (CAL) in Sri Lanka is one of our trusted ministry partners. The heart of their ministry is transform the lives of disadvantaged children in Kandy. Hunger, neglect, exploitation and abuse are just a few of the many challenges that face the children who live and work on the streets as beggars.

CAL uses two centres to provide breakfast and lunch to the children. The facilities also provide education to children considered worthless by their own community. This is an attitude that says that children are born 'bad' and cannot be redeemed. The purpose of this ministry is to enable disadvantaged children to realize the possibilities.

"Child Action Lanka was started out of a desire to give kids hope and a future," explains CAL Director, Ms Debs Edirisinghe. "We work with street kids and underprivileged kids - kids who have a very high risk of falling onto the streets... (we) educate them, care for them, clean them and love them - make sure they reach their dreams."

During the September tour of Sri Lanka, the Australian Cricket team, led by Captain Michael Clarke visited the CAL centre in Kandy. The full 15 member squad and 12 man support staff arrived to present signed shirts and bats and played a game of backyard cricket with the children. The children, aged from 2 to 18 years, were keen to impress their heroes with some big hitting and inspired fielding.




"This is a dream they could never possibly dream of; I think it has made their day," Ms Edirisinghe said. "It's a big moment in their lives. It's going to be a very special moment for them that they'll always remember. It's not everyone who comes to them; it's not everyone who treats them with special care. It's very touching to see the Australian team here with them... I think they've touched a very deep part of their heart."

In media interviews the next day, many of the cricket team admitted the game of backyard cricket was probably the highlight of their busy tour. For the Child Action Lanka children, this could well be the highlight of their lives. However this simple gesture shows the children that no dream is impossible. watch the interview with Michael Clarke onutube
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_2vf4x9dMXc


CAL relies on us to reduce the burden of providing enough food each day, but with rising costs of food the pressure to make ends meet is mounting. Debs depends on us to help feed the children that their own community has abandoned. Next year, she plans to open 3 more centres in North Sri Lanka - in Galle, Batticaloa and Kilionchi. These centres will serve the children who lost their parents during the civil war.

Because of your past support the EveryChild EveryDay program has been able to provide daily meals to 35,081 children in 20 countries through 28 ministries. Please prayerfully consider supporting our EveryChild EveryDay program so that we can continue to feed children around the world.

There are more children trapped in the poverty cycle. There are more children who have no hope for the future. There are more children who are considered 'worthless' by people who should be their guardians and protectors. Tragically there are more children who are simply dying from hunger & its related causes.

According to a recent UN study, 10.9 million children under five die in developing countries each year. Malnutrition and hunger-related diseases cause 60 percent of the deaths. That means that 17,918 children die from hunger every single day!

That statement continues to shock me every time I think about it.

You can help!

For just £4, the cost of just one take-away, you can provide 100 hot, nutritious meals to hungry children in the world's poorest countries. If you gave £4 every week you could provide 5,200 meals every year!



I can't do everything to solve that problem on my own, but I can do something to reduce that number. I ask you to prayerfully consider whether you can join me and do something too.

Will you help take away hunger?  Donate today at www.feedthehungry.org.uk or call 0845 519 6025

Thursday 10 November 2011

TAKE AWAY HUNGER DAY

Want to listen in to America and the work FTH do over there??
Pulse FM's TAKE AWAY HUNGER DAY HAS BEGUN! Listen in live at pulsefm.com
Let's take away hunger for 500 kids today...

Wednesday 9 November 2011

We truly serve a mighty God.

Hot of the press - good news travels fast from China. One big praise party

 Two Sundays ago, I got a very urgent email from a Am/Korean pastor about an orphanage in Phnom Penh, they would run out of rice by Nov if not replenished, a US donor pulled out on their rice budget few months ago, and if they could buy un-milled rice before Thanksgiving, they could get it at a good price. USD6000 would supply one year rice for 72 kids. I had been to the Home, they really deserved to receive help... Super good House Mother.

Over the weekends, I asked two of my friends to help and I received US1000 from them; then I prepared a note to my donors last Friday, but my part time helper won't be in the office to send a mass mail till today.

For the last two days I had two seminars, theirs start at 5:30 am one session and 8pm one session. I really had no time to call any one and I can't talk to any one until the email sent.

I just got home, and found a donor gave HK1000, our faithful one in China said she and her husband would give all USD6000 to feed the kids one year. Oh my God !! I have no time and not able to do something, God just arranged everything ! We truly serve a mighty God.

Every day a story could be told of the generosity of the widow who gives a pound every month, to the youth club that arrange a slum in, or the coffee morning by a ladies group that bring joy to children on the other side of the world. Today another 72 kids are added to the growing number of children fed by Feed the Hungry’s - EveryChild EveryDay program. One big praise party just breaking out.

If you would like to know more about the EveryChild EveryDay program please email me at gwilliams@feedthehungry.org or call 0845 519 6025

Tuesday 1 November 2011

Matching Challenge Grant

Friends of Feed The Hungry have created a £36,000 Matching Challenge Grant to match every gift we receive by December 15, pound for pound. Their goal is to help provide more meals for more starving children through our Every Child Every Day program . . . and to encourage ministry partners like you by making your gift go twice as far.

For many of the 35,081 boys and girls currently being fed by friends like you, their Every Child Every Day meal is their only meal of the day. And with our efficient network of suppliers, it costs so little to make the difference between hunger and hope. Through Feed The Hungry's innovative system of shipping fortified rice meals, vitamins, and other essentials directly to local churches and ministries, we can be sure every meal reaches a child who truly needs it.

And because food is a little key that opens big doors for these precious children, they truly welcome the message of God's love that comes with every meal. Gospel presentations, Bibles in local languages, Christian children's literature, and more help the boys and girls build a relationship with Jesus Christ and see His plan for their futures . . . futures they'll have because of the meals you provide.

Thousands of precious children around the world are hungry, desperate, and depending on your compassion.

Please give your BEST gift to be matched today! http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/