Romania Snow Crisis

Subject: Romanian Crisis


To the Feed The Hungry Team.
I need to present a situation to you for your advice. In Romania we have many requests for help from churches, families, and from the village officials and CPS department. Entire villages are covered with snow, cutting off the people from deliveries of food and basic supplies. The army is now digging some of these houses out of the snow but it is a slow process.

We have a good supply of food and winter clothing at our warehouse in Bucharest that we could use to help the most desperate of these people. But before we try to make our way through the ice with snow chains on our truck, I wanted to first get your guidance concerning our supplies. Do we hold back the food for future use at our Feeding Centres or could we have a quick response now to the most desperate requests for help? If we do help now, what is the extent of the help? What is the limit? I can send you the money for the container of beans that we spoke about but this will not arrive until later, possibly to help replace some of the food that we use for the crisis now. But even with the bean container, we will still be low on can goods and soup mix.

I want to stay within the guidelines that FTH sets for using the food. I can raise a little money to purchase bread and other necessities but I could do much more if we could use a portion of our supplies at our Bucharest warehouse.




Please let me know your suggestions. We will stay within the limits and guidelines that you set.

God bless you and all of the staff at FTH

We received this request from Bread of Life in Romania asking if we could release some of the ECED inventory in their warehouse (soup mix, beans, canned goods) for emergency distributions to people trapped by the snowstorms outside of Bucharest. Of course we said “Yes” and told BOL to use up to 50% of our goods for emergency relief.


We have a lorry ready to go from Germany but is as yet unable to get through safely. We are also looking at what we can do to supplement this by sending a container of Food , clothing and blankets from the UK, if you can help please let me know. email me at gwilliams@feedthehungry.org or if you would like to donate towards thids crisis please go to http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/
 
 
Gwyn Williams
Operations Manager

Every Child Every day program up 28%

Our Every Child Every Day program has seen a 28 PERCENT INCREASE in the number of children who rely on us for a daily meal since last year!

We have extended the feeding program in Romania from 600 to 1200 children and  we are aiming to increase it, to 2000, in this coming year.

In Bulgaria, new doors are opening and we hope to add another 350 children to the EveryChild EveryDay Program.

 In Uganda we have established the East African Resource Centre to look at supplying aid into Rwanda, the Congo and Zambia, as well as maintaining a supply of food into the Horn of Africa.

In the UK we have are involved in provding emergency food packs to families in need 

Also launched will be a new long term feeding  program to orphaned children in Sendai, Japan ,  where we are committed to helping vulnerable children to receive love and hope amidst tragedy.

Every £4.00 you share will feed a hungry boy or girl every day for a month and help us to expand our outreach to reach more children in need.

With every meal you help provide,  these hurting children will see God’s love in action and learn more about how He cares for them.  Together we can save children’s lives and transform their future!

Our aim is to increase our outreach  to a total of  50,000 children in 2012.   Together we have a choice to make this happen.  You have already chosen to help the EveryChild EveryDay go from feeding just over 4,300children five years ago to feeding 35,081 daily this year.

Your continuing support does make a difference to children around the world, not only in providing food, but in providing the children with educational or vocational opportunities, and through our partner ministries bring the good news of Christ’s salvation to them, their families and the communities that they live in.

Happy New Year to you all and may 

God bless you for 

your continuing support in 2012

 Feeding the Hungry with you,   

Peter Sumrall

President

Call on 0845 519 6025

or Donate online

http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to you all on this wonderful celebration of God’s Gift of Life , thank you all for giving your time prayers and hope for people and especially kids who have suffered this past year, without you we would not have been able to extend our program from 26,000 kids to 35,000 kids this year, already your commitment is opening doors to new opportunities next year. Every Blessing Gwyn

Visit http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/ to learn more about our EveryChild EveryDay program and how you can make a difference

Thank you from Kenya

Thank you for your outpouring of love and compassion toward the people of northern Kenya and east Africa. With your support, Feed The Hungry has sent another 8 ocean going container of rice meals, maize, and beans to provide much life-sustaining aid to thousands of women and children who are suffering. Another 40 tons of maize has been purchased in country to offer immediate relief!

Feed The Hungry Australia Director, Ben Evans, reports from the field,

“Traveling north you are lulled into a false sense of security. Southern Kenya is rich, vibrant, lush and full of life. In stark contrast, the Turkana region of northern Kenya is dry, dusty, and desolate. In Nairobi, children were playing carefree in fountains while just a few hundred miles to the north, people are dying from a lack of water. Feed The Hungry is there! Already in a few short weeks the difference we are making is amazing. Where once the people waited in misery and despair, Feed The Hungry teams were greeted with joy, appreciation, and deep gratefulness. Yes…we are feeding empty bellies, but even more importantly, we are showing the Turkana people that God has heard their prayers through generous donations. Hope has sprung once again in their weary hearts. They know that they are no longer alone.”

£16 provides an entire family of five with emergency rations for a month

£64 provides a month of rations for

twenty people

£160 will keep fifty people from the brink

of starvation

Connect with East African people today and donate online by visit http://www.feedthehungry.org.uk/

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

TAKE AWAY HUNGER DAY

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Let's take away hunger for 500 kids today...

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