Thank you SO MUCH for your support for our Hunger Crisis Appeal over this summer and harvest season. Your generosity has literally been lifesaving. You donated £35,459 for feeding hungry families in countries including Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lebanon and Sri Lanka.
In Ethiopia, our partners gave 20kg of maize, at a cost of just £15 per head, to 192 struggling people in 31 families, including 74-year-old Deliko, a father of six.
Deliko used to be relatively wealthy, owning an ox, a cow and two goats. Struggling with his eyesight, he sold his ox to fund treatment at an eye clinic. Unfortunately, the treatment was unsuccessful, and he lost his sight permanently.
His large family – which includes two children under five – and his disability left him extremely vulnerable when the drought came. As the drought persisted from 2020 into 2022, he sold his remaining assets – his cow and goats – to feed his children.
When Global Care’s partners stepped in, this family were staring starvation in the face. The rains finally came but they had nothing to eat while new crops grew and no more assets to sell. The food delivery made all the difference. Now the family will survive.
Deliko used to be relatively wealthy, owning an ox, a cow and two goats. Struggling with his eyesight, he sold his ox to fund treatment at an eye clinic. Unfortunately, the treatment was unsuccessful, and he lost his sight permanently.In Uganda, 173 sponsored children in Soroti received a family food parcel, at a cost of around £30 each. Other parts of Uganda were not as badly affected by drought.
Grace says the drought has been even harder to handle than the Covid lockdowns. “It has been the most difficult season of my life,” she says. The food parcel from Global Care was a huge encouragement. She said: “May the Lord reward everyone who has given to support the hungry people of Soroti during this difficult time.”
Grace is a single mum with eight children. Her daughter *Marla is sponsored through Global Care’s Soroti office. Grace works hard in her garden to feed her family, as she has no source of income. But the long drought in Soroti devastated her careful planning; the lack of rain affected every crop in her garden. Harvest was scant.We have also
- trebled the value of the food vouchers given to 22 extremely vulnerable HIV+ children at Sri Lanka’s Kadella Centre
- doubled our contribution to feeding for residents and short stay visitors at the Kadella Centre refuge
- funded another two months of school meals for 350+ pupils at Spurgeons Academy, in Kibera, Kenya
- funded food vouchers worth around $2,800 for families known to our partners in Lebanon
Thank you so much to everyone who donated so generously. We will continue to use these funds for feeding hungry families in marginalised communities. Rising prices and supply issues remain a global problem, and we will continue to do all we can to help vulnerable communities cope, through the efforts of our international partners.
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