Hungry No More

A glimpse into a world that is vastly different from ours. A brief encounter with children who did not have enough. We were giving out food to some children during our Johannesburg trip. The children gobbled up the food and kept coming back for more. And it was not a sumptuous spread which was offered but simple fare (sandwiches). We heard that some of the children did not have regular meals, unsure of when or where their next meal will come from. This scenario is more widespread than I thought and there are countless children who are even worse off than those we encountered in Johannesburg.

This year, 6 million children will die from hunger related causes if we don't do anything about it.  According to Children's Hunger Fund, US 5 cents is enough to provide a hungry child a meal. A group of mommy bloggers are coming together to raise awareness and funds for this cause.

So I am appealing to you for your participation in this little fund raising activity. All you need to do is this:

1. Crop and paste any of the information here on your blog site, together with this logo (just right click and save image in your hard drive)

2. Appeal for friends and readers on your site to go directly to this page to make direct contributions. All it takes is US $5.00 for 100 meals for the children. Of course, it will be great if you can contribute more. You can also go to this page to make a direct contribution to areas that are most needed; like disaster relief. 

3. Organise your own fund raising activity. 

There are plenty of ideas that you can adopt to raise the funds;
- Bake sale
- Make and Sell a product
- Give up a birthday gift
- Lose weight by missing a meal and contributing what you might have spent on the meal to the Children's Hunger Fund

4. If you have a preschooler or a child who has learnt to save some money, talk to him/her to see if he can give a little of his money to help to feed hungry children.

Children's Hunger Fund is a Christian nonprofit organization that works to alleviate the suffering of children in impoverished regions across America and around the world. Since CHF began in 1991, many with their donations have helped them distribute more than $927 million in food and other resources to serve the needs of more than 10 million children in thirty-five U.S. states and seventy-two countries worldwide. Charity should transcend religion and race, help us and Children's Hunger Fund to show a child in some remote corner of our world that he/she is loved.

Do drop me a note if you are interested to participate and will be putting this fund raiser activity up on your blog or FB page. My deepest appreciation and thanks in advance for your kind and giving contribution to Children's Hunger Fund!