Over 1,000,000 Meals Delivered to Ethiopia & Somali Families!

Report From CHRF Emergency Relief Team Leader - On The Ground in the Ethiopia Region:

 

Note: For Safety Reasons the dates and locations have been removed from our Team Leaders Report but the News remains the same.

Since late August of this year (2011) Children’s Hunger Relief Fund has been working towards our goal of distributing One Million Meals to starving children and their desperate families who are in great need and horrific circumstances.

“We had a few scares and some real close calls.” Tells our Emergency Relief Team Leader who has been traveling in and out of the Somali Region for months now, desperately searching for a way to get as many meals to the starving people in the region who need it most.

“We had to have at least a dozen body guards with us at all times to protect the food from thieves and protect us from kidnapping and being held ransom which is happening all over this region.”

The need is great, but thanks to our CHRF Emergency Relief Team and our CHRF Donors we have achieved our goals of providing the children and their families with over 1,000,000 meals! Now with our team going into the Somali Region again soon we will far surpass our goal and continue to help providing food for children and their families where NO OTHER relief Agencies have been able to help.

“We have located entire villages and hundreds of families who hadn’t been receiving any aid. Thank God we were able to help them. It may only seem like a little bit, a donation of 5,10,20 or a 100 dollars, but when you are here, providing meals that only cost 10-30 cents, you can realize the impact and incredible amount of support and hope for life that you have given these people. I am blessed and so grateful to be able to provide these thousands of children and their families with the help and generous support that CHRF Donors have volunteered from the love and compassion of their hearts.”

For making these combined deliveries of over 1,000,000 meals possible, we THANK YOU!

“The food is running out
for thousands of children."

"Even though we've recently delivered 400,000 meals to children and their families, malnutrition and starvation will continue unless we're able to do more. Our team is prepared to return as soon as funds are available for additional food supplies." CHRF- Ethiopia Field Director

“I cannot begin to describe the feelings or emotions that one experiences when seeing and holding a dying and suffering child. It is beyond description, a gut wrenching experience.”

“One little girl that I held in my arms was Mihret Eliyas, she is 18 months old and weighs 11lbs, severely malnourished; her hair is grey and started falling out into my hands as I held her. Her arm was little more than the size of a man’s finger.”

The frustration is evident amongst our team members. Just a short plane ride and a few hours drive in a truck and we have been transported from a McDonalds to a place where children have not eaten in weeks. They have lost the necessary energy and ability for their bodies to create tears for them to cry.

“This month’s famine has had a devastating effect upon the people of Ethiopia. They live off of their farms and when their fields grow nothing they go starving. Their only asset is the land on which they farm. This is the only place that supplies the food they put in their mouths and if it doesn’t yield they don’t eat. A difficult concept for the Western mind to grasp. No food in the fridge we whip out the wallet and head our local grocery store or a restaurant. Here, no food means death.

Hard to believe that for the price of a fast food meal the life of an Ethiopian child can be saved or 4 meals at just under $30 the child will eat every day of the month. Thankfully we were able to deliver over 100,000 pounds of food, which in turn provided over 400,000 meals to the starving, desperate and needy people of Ethiopia.

Thank you CHRF Donors for your loyal support to innocent starving children whose LIVES HAVE BEEN SAVED due to your support and generosity. Your investment, whether the value of a happy meal or the value of a five star dinner makes a difference in the lives of many starving children!

 

Thankfully we were able to deliver over 100,000 pounds of food which provided over 400,000 meals to the starving, desperate and needy people of Ethiopia. But there is so much more to do. Please Donate Now and help us save the children of Ethiopia!