Do you know what you mean to a child suffering through a famine? For a child in Zimbabwe, you may mean the assurance of a hot meal today, tomorrow and beyond.

Imagine that you are a twelve-year-old child living in Zimbabwe today. You'd be facing one of the most hopeless possible futures on the planet. HIV/AIDS is rampant. Jobs are extremely rare. Recent statistics show that 95% of your fellow Zimbabweans are unemployed (2009 CIA World Fact Book). As a child with no education, your chances of holding a job that pays enough to live on is next to impossible.

Learning and Growing, Healthy and Hopeful:
At this school in Mudzi, Zimbabwe, children receive food and nutritional supplements. Soon they will have a nearby medical clinic to care for their health on a regular basis. Your support has made it possible.

Hope of An Education:
These boys are educated in a school supported in part by Children’s Hunger Fund.

You would like to go to school, but school fees keep you out. School costs $30 per month. Buying food is your highest priority.

Even if you were able to get a job, it would pay very little. $200 per month is a common wage for teachers or civic leaders. Food for a family of four costs about $400 per month. In order to eat, you would have to search for items on the street (tires, shoes, scrap metal, and clothing) that you could sell. As a child in Zimbabwe, you would know the sad reality of living life without hope.

The Worst City In The World
The Capitol city of Zimbabwe (Harare) is the worst city in the world. This bold assertion is based on a survey by Economist Intelligence Unit (Nov 2009). A controversial land reform program caused farms across the nation to close, bringing food production to a stop, which in turn has devastated the job market, creating an economic famine. In 2008, inflation grew to an unthinkable 231 Million percent! To put that in perspective, one hundred trillion (100,000,000,000,000) dollars in Zimbabwean currency could buy you 3 chicken eggs.

Famine and You
Statistics like this make it hard to see any hope for Zimbabwe's precious children. But you can do something about it. You can feed children who are affected by a famine.

Children's Hunger Fund has been working in Africa for many years. We have Mercy Networks in Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda, and Zimbabwe. Our approach is to give you opportunities to supply local churches with the food they need to help struggling children and families experience hope beyond their circumstances. We have access to an incredible product made specifically for children struggling from malnutrition and hunger.  It is a vitamin-fortified casserole mix made with rice and soy that was designed with multiple cultures in mind, and tastes pretty good too!

Here’s where you come in. It costs around $12,000 to send a sea container full of rice casserole to the countries where CHF serves. There are approximately 240,000 meals shipped per sea container, so that is a cost of 5¢ per serving for a child in need.

Will you help feed a suffering child by helping us ship these meals? The math is easy. For every dollar you give, we can ship 20 meals. $100 provides 2,000 meals. $1,000 provides 20,000 meals, and $12,000 provides nearly 1/4 Million meals.

You can make a difference in the lives of thousands of children through a simple gift.

Thank you for your generosity.