17/11/11 - Photo Gallery Updated
Over 80 more photos have been uploaded from the recent October trip to Turkana and Pokot territories of Northen Kenya.
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17/11/11 - Field Report Released - Bumper Africa Famine Release
This special bumper edition highlights some of our recent African Famine relief work in Northern Kenya. You will also find articles from some of our Take Away Hunger (TAH) partner orphanages and ministries in Burundi, Haiti and Nicaragua.
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26/9/11 - FTH Partners September Video Update
Seasonal rains have failed across East Africa, creating the worst drought on record for the past sixty years. A drought so severe that it has brought about the first UN declaration of famine since 1984.
11 million people are in danger of starvation. One-third of all children are acutely malnourished. Refugee camps are filling up by the thousands. We must act immediately to deliver emergency aid to women and children who stand between life and death.
Feed The Hungry is there but we need your help.
Every $30 you donate to Feed the Hungry today Will provide a family of five with enough rations for a month!
Each person is precious. Every day counts.
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21/9/11 - Robert Boucek - trip Report 14-24 August 2011
There is no doubt of the need for continued relief in the areas inspected. Hunger is serious, malnutrition is apparent, lives have been lost. Due to the strength, reliability and interest of the partner, we are able to ensure an effective outreach consistent with the core values and mission of Feed the Hungry: feeding the hungry, strengthening the church and reaching the lost.
Our lead partner, Bible & Literacy League of Kenya, has been very pro-active and helpful and has done all I have asked. They have proven reliable and trustworthy. Beyond their own existing areas of influence they have proven willing to work with others. Moreover they have committed to sending a team of two to Lodwar to pioneer a work as the Lord makes provision. We have also seen the African Inland Church to have an effective ministry and a willingness to work in partnership.
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26/9/11 - Photo Galleries Updated
Almost 190 photos have uploaded to our website in four separate groups.
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21/9/11 - Stefan Radelich Field Report
“In all my experience with Feed The Hungry I’ve never seen the combined consequences of poverty and crisis so graphically visible as in Turkana, Kenya.
Aged men and women who have known and survived hardship all their lives have a look of fatal resignation in their weather-worn faces. I have never seen so many people literally look like skin and bones as the elderly in Turkana."
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15/9/11 - Africa Famine Posters
A pictures speaks more than a thousand words, perhaps these pictures may help you in your fund-raising efforts.
Remember you can help provide one month's rations for just $6! Every dollar counts in this situation.
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5/9/11 - Hope 103.2FM Interview
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1/9/11 - Stefan Radelich reports from the field
I have never seen so many human beings that are skin-and-bones-thin in all my life. And I’ve never seen a modest ration of food make such a difference.
Elderly widows and grandmothers holding their head in their hands for sorrow left our rural relief centers with a spark of hope in their eyes, thanking us with their smiles.
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1/9/11 - Africa Famine Radio Appeal
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1/9/11 - Africa Famine - Distribution Update
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23/8/11 - Africa Famine Distribution Update
A large amount of photos have been uploaded to Facebook
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22/8/11 - Africa Famine - Distribution Update
FTH staff are working with local Churches in Lodwar in the Turkana District of North Eastern Kenya. One of the many areas listed as in a critical situation by the UN. Turkana is one of the harshest places of habitation on earth. It has been described as,
“a horizon-less frying pan of desolation, a sun-dried moon-scape of cracked earth harder than iron...
Vast plains of dehydrated thorn scrub, sightless deserts and scorched black mountains. Temperatures often climb to 120 degrees in the shade... Thirst is the traveler’s closest companion.
The country may have been described best by the late journalist, Negley Farson, when he called it
'as close as you can get to hell on earth'."Charles Miller, The Lunatic Express).
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22/8/11 - FTH Emergency Airlift
46,656 servings of FMSC Manna Pack Potato-W meals have been airlifted into Nairobi, Kenya. MPP-W is a specially formulated, nutritionally charged food for infants & children under 5. Another 33 tons of maize meal in Kenya for distribution to 3,000 displaced people and refugees fleeing the famine.
Every $30 donated toward Africa Famine Appeal will provide another family of five with a month’s supply of food.
Two 40-foot containers of emergency food supplies including lentils, beans, corn meal, and fortified rice meals leave our US warehouse next week for Kenya… approximately 38,000 kilograms of monthly rations to sustain 4,000 people.
Please help us multiply our efforts by supporting our Africa Appeal. Millions of lives are literally at risk.
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22/8/11 - Africa Famine Appeal
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25/7/11 - Africa Famine Summary
Food packs of 40kg of corn and 5kg of beans will provide minimal subsistence to a family of five for one month. Proteins, cooking oil and sugar will be added to the food packs. Each food pack will cost approx USD$30 or $6 per person to provide approx 1000 calories a day.
FTH base of operations is in Kakamega, and will initially focus on distributions in Turkana District where the situation is known to be critical. A network of churches exists along the main highway north. Each church will receive an allotment of food on a monthly basis to support families identified by the local church pastors.
As donations to the Horn of Africa appeal, the distributions will expand to include more logistics centres.
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8/7/11 - FTH Appeal Launched
The world has been shocked by a series of sudden and ferocious natural disasters this year: state wide flooding in Queensland; deadly earthquakes in Christchurch; and Japan’s triple disaster - earthquake, tsunami and radiation threat.
While the world’s media has clambered over one another to beam pictures of these unfolding disasters right into your living room, a deadly famine has crept silently through the Horn of Africa with little of the world’s attention.
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You can help!
Even if substantial rains fell today, it will take another three months to plant and harvest the crops. Feed one person for a month for just $6.
Please prayerfully consider sending your best donation to the Horn of Africa famine appeal and click here to make your donation now.
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