Tropical cyclone Nargis has claimed some 22,000 lives and an estimated
40,000 people are missing, prompting a full-scale response by international
aid organization, Feed The Hungry.
Stefan Radelich, Executive Director of Feed The Hungry states, "The
reports from our contacts on the ground describing the devastation are
reminiscent of the 2005 Tsunami; the scope and depth of the destruction
is beyond what words or pictures can convey."
FTH Logistics Director, Bob Boucek departed South Bend, IN for Washington,
D.C. to solicit expedited Visas from The Embassy of the Union of Myanmar
Consul and clearances to bring relief supplies over the Thailand border.
Radelich states that over a million people, already living in poor
conditions, have likely been displaced by the cyclone. "There is
no power, no running water and people are looting stores to survive.
Our contacts estimate it may be a month before utilities can be restored.
Our main contact's facility in Yangon, Myanmar has a generator to provide
power, so it can be utilized as a relief center, but they have no supplies
to help the overwhelming number of survivors,"
"Our plan is to purchase and send relief supplies from Thailand
including water, purification tablets, food, blankets, tarps and chainsaws
to our center in Yangon. There are trees down everywhere and teams are
being organized now to clear roads and pathways but they are ill-equipped
with machetes," Radelich said.
"My greatest concern is for the children and the elderly who are
especially vulnerable during a crisis like this... we must get them
shelter, clean water, and food as quickly as possible. The potential
spread of disease is always a threat when people have to survive day
to day in such conditions without clean water, adequate nutrition, and
a roof over their head."
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deadly cyclone in Myanmar. Pray that relief organizations like Feed
The Hungry can quickly acquire the resources needed to provide emergency
aid to desperate children and families. Pray for favor with government
authorities for quick and unrestricted access to affected areas.
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Several months ago, we received this poignant email from Joan West of
Liberty Christian Center (LCC) in California:
"Our church is doing missions work in Liberia, Africa, and currently
we send monthly support to six orphanages. All our money buys is 1/2
cup of rice per day per child and some oil for cooking. The meal is
supplemented with roots and fruits when available. This provision is
nutritionally bankrupt and we need to find a solution to the nutrition
problem."
Nicaragua/Honduras Hurricane Relief
FTH staff kept a watchful eye on the storm over Labor Day weekend and
began mobilizing aid early Tuesday morning.
(CNN) Reports -- "Rescuers searched for survivors of Hurricane
Felix on Thursday as the death toll from the powerful storm rose to
nearly 100, according to The Associated Press. Residents cope Thursday
with the damage from Hurricane Felix in La Pajara, northern Nicaragua.
Ninety-eight Nicaraguans were killed, Abelino Cox told the AP. Cox is
the spokesman for the Regional Emergency Committee in Puerto Cabezas,
Nicaragua.
Felix barreled ashore about 7:45 a.m. ET Tuesday near the Honduras-Nicaragua
border as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds, the most intense classification
on the Saffir-Simpson scale used by meteorologists.
Jorge Ramon Arnesto Soza, executive secretary of the National System
for the Prevention, Mitigation and Attention of Disasters, said the
death toll was likely to increase as reports came in from remote areas.
Survivors of the storm struggled Thursday. An AP photographer in an
isolated Nicaraguan village saw residents cracking coconuts to drink
the milk because they had nothing else.
In Honduras, meanwhile, in addition to the 52 Miskito Indian survivors,
an undetermined number of others aboard a boat were rescued, Echeverria
said.
About 11,000 Miskito Indians in the isolated region did not evacuate
before the storm. Honduran officials had trouble getting to the remote
region but did manage to evacuate more than 3,100, according to regional
army commander Col. Carlos Edgar Mejia of the 115th Infantry Brigade.
The United Nations' World Food Program said in a statement that the
hurricane ripped the roof off a Nicaragua hotel where staff members
were staying and destroyed a food aid warehouse.
Nearly 80 percent of Nicaraguans live below the poverty level, many
in ill-constructed homes.Felix was the second Category 5 storm to hit
the region this year, marking the first recorded instance of two such
storms making landfall in a single hurricane season."
Feed The Hungry responds
At present more than 175 tons (350,000 pounds) of needed food aid is
being shipped to in-country ministry partners along the Honduran coast
and in north-eastern Nicaragua.
"We're
thankful that significant supplies were pre-positioned in Texas, ready
for shipment", said Stefan Radelich, Director of Feed The Hungry.
"Just days before Hurricane Felix came across the Sea of Cortez,
we also received a large supply of cornmeal—a major food staple
for Central America—from our good friends at Wilson Corn Products
in Rochester, Indiana."
The first shipment of supplies will arrive on September 12th to aid
the thousands of affected residents as they return to their evacuated
towns, cities, and homelands.
To help the survivors and families in Honduras and Nicaragua
affected by Hurricane Felix,click
here
Help Arrives for Cambodian Flood Victims
FTH has just received confirmation that planned food distributions to
7,000 familes were completed throughout Kampong Thom province on Sunday,
August 12th.
Storm related floods reportedly affected 12,000 homes and 18,000 hectares
of rice fields in Kampong Thom on Tuesday, August 14th.
To help FTH's work in theCambodia outreach,click here.
Every Child Every Day! Under
the direction of Peter Sumrall, Feed The Hungry began a new initiative
in 2005, a daily committment to feed vulnerable children who have been
taken in by Christian Orphanages and Childcare Ministries around the
globe:
Children who have been orphaned by war and disease.
Children from unimaginably poverty-stricken families.
Children torn from their homes and turned into refugees by natural and
man-made tragedies.
Children who, without the care and protection of these Christian orphanages,
simply might not survive.
"This is a chance to fulfill a significant part of the vision that
God originally gave my father, 20 years ago" says Peter Sumrall;
"It's been my desire to return to the work my father began in the
60's -- helping childcare ministries and orphanages with the resources
they need to take in and reach more hurting children with God's love."
Darfur, Sudan
The Darfur region of Sudan-- you may have heard about it in the news.
It's one of the most tragic, most savage killing fields in the world.
For two decades the horror of civil war has inflicted suffering on a
staggering scale: Rape. Torture. Hundreds of thousands dead. Mllions
displaced. Today Feed The Hungry has an unprecedented opportunity to
go into this overwhelmingly Muslim land with life-saving food . . .
and to share the message of hope in Jesus Christ. In fact, every dollar
donated to this project will be multiplied seven-and-a-half times!
Mozambique Flood
Relief
On Friday, February 23, a tropical cyclone bearing 175 mph winds swept
in from the Indian Ocean, tearing into central Mozambique. As if that
weren't crushing enough -- the country was already fighting the worst
flooding in 50 years.
300,000 Mozambicans now must "survive" on dirty water, little
food, and minimal hope. Daily life has been replaced with daily fear
of water-borne diseases and starvation. 100,000 children are at risk
... living in crowded, makeshift camps that don't have enough food.
On Saturday, February 24, Feed The Hungry put relief efforts into motion
to rush aid to our ministry partners in Mozambique, starting with a
quarter-million meal packs trucked up from storage facilities in neighbouring
Swaziland... More info
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to feeding the hungry around the world and reaching those in desperate
need. We directly oversee the entire relief process, meaning that your
gift gets to the people who need it the most.
Feeding body, soul, and spirit
Our goal is to bring Christ to a starving world. Through training programs
and evangelistic crusades with local pastors and churches, everyone
who receives aid hears the good news of the gospel!
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