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Provide lifesaving rice to these tiny victims If you send a gift before Easter Sunday, April 4, 2010, we have donors that will match it, dollar-for-dollar (up to $500,000). Your gift will be doubled to feed twice as many hungry children. 
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A special sacrifice to honor our Lord Lent is a time to reflect on Christ’s sacrifice and His ultimate victory over death. This Lent, give a gift to celebrate Christ’s resurrection by providing lifesaving food to hungry children in the Caribbean and Latin America.
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On January 12th a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck near Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Devastating aftershocks followed. The current number of dead and missing is estimated to be between 100,000 and 500,000. The entire capital of Port-au-Prince appears damaged or destroyed.
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After her children’s father abandoned them, Esther cannot afford to buy daily food for her two sons — and she’s desperately looking for help. “I kneel and cry and pray… if someday God can send someone to help me,” Esther sobs.
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His name is Jefferson. He’s 40 days old, and he weighs just four pounds. He’s not even the weight of a healthy newborn. He’s so severely malnourished he struggles to take even small breaths.
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“This child might die here if she doesn’t get attention.” During a visit to a rural mountain village in Guatemala, Sister Edna Morales, who runs a nutritional center supported by Food For The Poor, was concerned as she examined 1-year-old Milvia.
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Hungry Children Need Your Help In the small village of Ranquitte in northern Haiti, food is considered a luxury. Many of the families who live here are accustomed to going for days without eating. One desperate mother saying, “Eating is an accident.”
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Life for Haiti’s poor has grown increasingly difficult. With skyrocketing food prices and many living on $1 a day, the poor search for any means available to feed their children.
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