Deliver emergency aid to innocent victims who were forced to flee to neighboring Colombia
Millions of children in the Caribbean and Latin America are starving, and suffering from the ravaging effects of malnutrition. Without proper nourishment, their chances of growing up healthy diminish with every day.
Six-year-old Geraldson lives in Haiti and has never known what it's like to eat every day. When there's only a cup or two of rice to feed his entire family, he scrapes out his portion to gobble down every last grain. When there's nothing to eat, his younger brother and sister cry. They are too little to understand that their mother struggles every day to find food.
Sixteen-month-old Rosa, cries and cries with hunger, her mother, Santos, is heartbroken that she can’t give her enough food. The few morsels she is able to find are not enough to provide Rosa the nourishment she needs to grow and thrive.
There are more children arriving each day. Their parents can’t even grow food to feed their starving children. The poor farmers here in San Agustin have suffered for years from a severe drought. Work has vanished, and food prices have skyrocketed. There is little hope that the ongoing drought will end soon.
