Feed the Hungry

Feed the Hungry is a program at Christ Church that collects money each week for local and international non-profit agencies that work to end hunger, poverty, and to care for the earth.  An agency is highlighted each month and the money collected on each of those Sundays from "Feed the Hungry" envelopes is sent directly to the agency.  Information about the featured agency can be found in the Parish Home Companion and on a kiosk in the Parish Hall.  Agencies that receive the money are selected each year following guidelines set by the Public Ministries Committee.

This Month's Feed the Hungry Offering Will Be Going To...

IDUKAYPeru

Our May Feed the Hungry recipient is our Millennium Development Goals partner, IDUKAYPeru. IDUKAYPeru is a Lima based non-governmental organization (NGO) which serves children in a slum outside Lima. Most of the families are Incans who fled down from the Andes to escape the Shining Path, communist rebels who kill peasants who don't join them. Living on less than a dollar a day, in shacks formed from recycled shipping pallets erected on piles of construction rubble, is a better life than they had in the mountains. IDUKAYPeru set out to help the children of these families have better lives than their parents by giving them an education. To enable the children to pay attention, nutritious snacks are offered. To ensure that the children are allowed to attend school rather than searching the rubble heaps for rebar that can be sold, dinner for the family is offered once a week. First aid and medical help is offered to cure many of the skin diseases caused by living on a contaminated rubbish heap next to a fertilizer plant next to their only well. $30 feeds a child for a month. Let's see how many of these children we can feed by sending your check payable to Christ Church earmarked "Feed the Hungry" or use the "Feed the Hungry" envelopes in the pew racks.

Contact: Paul Heymann, 985-0411

Feed the Hungry 2009

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