For the Cost of a Coffee, You Can Change Lives
By: CMAA
Can the price of a coffee really change a life? Yes, it absolutely can! Because $6 is all it takes to feed a refugee child every day for a whole month.
That’s the message of Feed The Hungry as they launch ‘Take Away Hunger Day’ on Thursday, August 22.
The event calls on Australians to dig deep in support of some of the world’s most vulnerable children: refugee children in Uganda. These are children who have fled violence and tragedy in South Sudan and they’re often alone, hungry and struggling to survive.
“When hunger is your constant companion, concentration is a distant relative,” said Feed The Hungry Australia CEO Ben Evans. “We’re talking about feeding a child for a whole month with just $6… The meals are provided in a school environment, and we have opportunities to share the gospel.”
Providing a nutritious meal at school every day means children don’t have to worry about their next meal anymore.
Donate $6 today to feed a child for month.
Meet Alonyo
Alonyo is one of the many young people supported by Feed the Hungry. Born in South Sudan, she came to Uganda as a young refugee, alone.
“I’ve suffered a lot,” she told the Feed The Hungry team. “I came here in 2016. I was still young, only five years old. There was a war that took place where we were staying. They killed very many people.”
Alonyo had to flee her home on foot as tragically, her own family was killed.
Alonyo describes her escape through the horrors in heart-breaking terms: “When you’re walking, you just walk where people are now dead. You move while crying, you move while carrying things.”
When she arrived in Uganda, Alonyo was unaccompanied by any relative and was taken in by a woman whom she calls her stepmother.
Life in the refugee settlement was lonely and it took a long time for her to begin to heal from the trauma she’d been through. The violence and devastation she’d witnessed seemed permanently seared into her mind.
A lifeline
Going to school, Alonyo found support and healing. Apart from the fun and friendship of her peers – she looks forward to having a filling, nutritious meal each day.
Your support is urgently needed to help provide Alonyo and thousands like her with a healthy meal at school.
Your gift of just $6 on Take Away Hunger Day (August 22) will feed a hungry child at school, for a whole month. More than a meal, you’ll be helping to provide education and the opportunity to know God’s love.
Who are Feed The Hungry?
Feed The Hungry, founded in 1987, is based on Matthew 25 and believes that as Christians we have a biblical responsibility to respond to the injustice of world hunger with actions of compassion.
By partnering with local churches and aid organisations, Feed The Hungry has provided over 100 million meals around the world.
Join us for Take Away Hunger Day on Thursday 22 August in a national effort to provide nutritious rice meals to refugee children in Uganda.
Article supplied with thanks to Christian Media & Arts Australia.
All images: Feed The Hungry
