HAITI

GLOW is comitted to provide food for the hungry. We are preparing for a worse-case scenario famine in Haiti. Please use the donate button above to contribute specifically food for the hungry. Thank you

Have you heard, these are tough times in Haiti. If you’ve been reading my newsletter faithfully you will recall that I’ve been waving a warning ever since fall. The rainfall this past summer and fall was unprecedented in Haiti. I would speculate that 70% of Haiti’s gardens were flooded and lost (mostly in the Artibonite Valley). I saw this coming and now it’s here. The cost of food in Haiti has nearly doubled in the past six months. One factor causing the rise in prices is the shortfall of foods grown in Haiti, that “bartering” power is gone. Other factors include the rising fuel costs worldwide and the general sense of depression in the financial markets. For the first time ever the cost of operating our feeding programs has exceeded $10,000 a month. And though the cost of food is rising, we cannot compromise our feeding programs. At a time when hunger is ravaging Haiti, we must be that much more diligent to see that the children are being fed, every school day! By feeding the children in school we are helping relieve the food insecurity at home. This has a major impact on the communities where we are serving. AND: IT’S BEING DONE THROUGH THE HAITIAN CHURCH! We are helping to sustain healthy communities through these most desperate of times and doing it in a way that brings glory to the church!

WE NEED YOUR HELP NOW! PLEASE CONSIDER AN EXTRA DONATION TO HELP US UNDERWRITE THE RISING COST OF FOOD SO THAT OUR FEEDING PROGRAMS IN HAITI WILL NOT BE INTERRUPTED. Simply because: “I was hungry and you fed me!”

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