February 25, 2005
30 Hour Famine 2005
What is the 30 Hour Famine?
The 30 Hour Famine puts hands and feet to your desire to help students live a life of Christian compassion.
It will unite youth group members like never before. And the impact will last long after the Famine event is over. It can be the spark that fires up a person for a lifetime of reaching out to neighbors in need, whether they're across the street - or around the globe.
What does it take to help a hungry child?
Only $30 a month, just $1 a day, will feed and care for a child. Your group members can start by asking twelve people they know to donate $30 - that's one person for each month of the year. When they've done that, they will have raised $360, enough money to feed and provide necessary care to a child for a whole year.
This year, thousands of groups in more than 21 countries - more than 1 million teens - will unite with one goal in mind: to help children living in some of the most deplorable conditions on earth.
Countless lives will be impacted and saved. So get on board now. This can be the single most effective event you're a part of all year to make a difference in peoples' lives. And this means both in your community, and around the globe. Shake things up, and join the winnable war to save kids lives.
The money raised will be distributed in several areas:
- Asia Tsunami Disaster Relief (Famine funds not already committed to other relief projects will be designated to the tsunami relief and rebuilding efforts.)
- Darfur, Sudan - refugee crisis
- Kenya - Severe famine
A few facts about global hunger and poverty:
- Each day, over 29,000 children die from preventable diseases such as malnutrition, malaria, diarrhea, and acute respiratory infections. Malnutrition is associated with over half of those deaths.
- More than 852 million people in the world are malnourished—799 million of them are from the developing world. More than 153 million of them are under the age of 5.
- In developing countries, one child in 10 dies before his fifth birthday. By comparison, in the U.S. one child in 165 will die before turning five years old.
- In the last 50 years, 400 million people worldwide have died from hunger and poor sanitation. That’s three times the number of people killed in all wars fought in the entire 20th century.
- The wealthiest fifth of the world’s people consume an astonishing 86 percent of all goods and services, while the poorest fifth consume 1 percent.
- Of the 6.39 billion people in today's world, 1.2 billion live on less than $1 per day.
- Malnutrition can severely affect a child's intellectual development. Children who have stunted growth due to malnutrition score significantly lower on math and language achievement tests than do well-nourished children.
Hmmm, I wonder what organization was the 2004 top fundraiser in Missouri?
Here are the 2005 results so far.
What to help out? Contact our church office (573) 468-8044.
Posted by Christopher at February 25, 2005 04:19 PM