 What is REAL hunger? We’ve all had the experience of being hungry… but usually this only means skipping a meal or going without food for several hours.
But imagine going for days without anything to eat. Imagine having nothing to feed your suffering children, who cry out in pain from hunger.
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Hungry Haitians wait in line for food at a feeding center. |
Food For The Poor invites you to participate in our “first Friday fast” program — an initiative in which a small monthly donation can make a tremendous difference. By dedicating one day each month to a small change in daily routine, and by sharing what you have with others, you can sustain the lives of those who have nowhere else to turn.
Participants in this program choose one day every month (often a “first Friday”) as a day to break from the usual routine and focus on the issue of global hunger. By limiting meals that day and directing thoughts toward those living in poverty-stricken nations, participants grow in awareness of our brothers and sisters in Haiti.
The money that would have been spent on food is then donated to Food For The Poor to help feed hungry families. Your act of self-sacrifice will benefit those who go without food regularly.
You already know the importance of feeding malnourished families. And through previous acts of compassion and generosity, you’ve helped provide lifesaving relief to those in need. Food For The Poor invites you to take up the challenge once again by fasting one day a month and donating the proceeds to help others.
How much should you give? That’s up to you. A gift of only $12 will feed an entire family for a month. Larger gifts will help even more.
Skip the coffee, a sandwich, or the dessert for a day, and help a hungry family feed their children. Your gift will provide lifesaving nutrition — and hope — to those in great need.
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“If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
(1 Corinthians 13: 3, 7 (NAB)
During the holidays, many families in the USA feasted and enjoyed all kinds of wonderful seasonal dishes.
Meanwhile in Haiti, a man languished in prison for three months, unable to pay a $2 fine required by a judge. He was thrown in jail for trying to steal a few plantains from his boss to feed his six children. While he was doing jail time, he received word that two of his children had died from malnutrition. After hearing his story and meeting with him at the jail, Food For The Poor paid his fine just before Christmas, and the man was released to go back to his family.
Heartbreaking stories like these abound in real life throughout the developing world. But your gift this month will mean so much to desperate parents who are languishing from not having enough funds to buy food to feed their families.
Thank you for your generosity! Your donation to provide food might just mean the difference between life and death for a family in the Third World.
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to
the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear
the sighs and sorrows of men.
That is what love looks like.”
— St. Augustine
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