I happened to catch out of the corner of my eye this little girl. Karen was ten years old, by herself, going up and down the hillside of this dump looking and foraging for things. She was looking for food and also looking for, i believe, aluminum and Plastic Products to recycle for money for food. This is something that she does every day. Karens parents abandoned her years ago so shes being raised by her grandmother and grandfather who she calls daddy. Hes clearly very sick and when she thinks about the possibility of losing him, she is terrified. We can make a difference helping those children. We make a difference, but sometimes the people can see the need. I see the need every time that im going there. And its really important when those children give you a hug and they tell you thank you for everything you do, they thank you and god bless you because you are providing food for me and for my family. Thats something that really touched my heart. Stop and think for a moment about what a mother goes through raising her children in a povertyridden slum. How desperate she feels because she cant provide enough food or clean water for them. The agony of watching them get weaker and sicker from malnutrition. And her fears of living in a diseaseinfested place. This is reality for josephine and her three children. Life has been a bitter struggle for them after the death of her husband. He was the only provider for the family. So josephine does odd jobs like washing clothes to feed her children. But josephine is frail because she has a lifethreatening disease. Many days she doesnt have the strength to work so her children often go hungry. We just drink water and we stayed the whole day. When mildreds father was alive, he took care of their family and life wasnt this hard. In kenya the effects of severe poverty and the raging aids crisis have devastated one family after another. Fathers and mothers have been struck down by disease and millions have died. Single parents like josephine are struggling to provide for their children. Hunger for them is a painful, daily reality. But there is hope for children like mildred and her brothers. You can provide food for a hurting, hungry child and it only takes 15 a month. With the help of compassionate people like you feed the children is able to provide nourishing meals to hungry children living in desperate poverty. Call now and join feed the children in the fight against child hunger. No child should have to suffer the terrible pain of hunger and starvation. No mother should ever endure the heartbreak of watching her child waste away and die, powerless to save them. Theres so much need here. I mean, theres so much need and so many beautiful children here that it only takes just a little bit of what we have to help change their life. You can help provide nourishing food for three children every month. How is it possible to do so much for so little . Feed the children receives millions of dollars worth of food and essentials from leading corporations and food suppliers. Thanks to this donated food your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. Its amazing as i walk these streets, it seems to be the place where christ would walk. When jesus said when you do it unto the least of these, you do it unto me. right now millions of girls and boys in the worlds poorest countries depend on the nutritious food that feed the children delivers to their villages and schools. Many of these little ones would certainly suffer and die without help. Thats why we urgently need your support today. Chronic hunger and malnutrition arent just painful. They can stunt a childs growth for life, affecting their Brain Development and i. Q. , and cause children to fall prey to parasites, malaria and other killer diseases. Making sure that children have food in their system, making sure theyre healthy. And because of that, children will spend time in classrooms. And without an education, frankly, theyre lost. Call now or go online. Become a feed the children partner. Help rescue three children from hunger and starvation every month. Can you imagine anything more meaningful you could do with 15 a month . Anything more urgent than saving childrens lives . Its hard to believe in hope, or believe in the good news, or believe in a god when you cant even eat. And so i think we have an obligation. Im here to do what i can and to be his hands and feet. I hope other people will get involved and help. Your taxdeductible gift of 15 a month is all it takes to feed three children every month. Every dollar you give multiplies five times to save childrens lives. Feed the children is a fourstarrated charity. Pick up the phone now, or search feed the children. Reach out a hand of hope to children whose lives and futures are in danger. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. So dont wait. Call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Naini is an orphan, and at just nine years of age she is suffering in ways you and i will never understand. The harsh conditions this little girl lives in every single day of her life are shocking. Both her and the little girl . Have had nothing for three days. In southern kenya where naini and her grandmother live in the maasai village of maparasha, life is full of unbearable suffering. To try and earn a little money for her and her sick grandmother to live on, naini goes from neighbor to neighbor offering to herd their goats. But even the neighbors are desperate and hungry and most times unable to pay her. Despite her many heartbreaking struggles, this precious young girl still has a dream for the future. Tragically for so many children like naini, the only prospect for the future is an early death. But you can change that. Call now and help save lives with your monthly gift of just 15. Thats just 49 cents a day to help feed three hungry children every month. The anguish caused by hunger is hard to deny when its seen on the face of a child. When we met brian, he was so hungry and sick he could barely muster the strength to cry. We were shocked to learn this child is threeandahalf years old. His small stature makes him look much younger. Sadly, this is just one of the many deadly tolls that severe malnutrition takes on children. Brian also suffers with the heartache of being abandoned by his mother. His father, who is sick with hiv, is left alone to try and provide for brian and his siblings. But this is an impossible challenge in nations like kenya. Despite doing grueling, physical work from morning until night, this determined father will walk away with maybe 1 a day. Experts call this starvation wages. With no one to watch him during the day while his father is looking for work, brian just sits alone in this dark, cold, mud hut. Sick and starving, he cries out for his dad and hopefully waits for him to return with food. Millions of children in africa are living with unimaginable hunger, suffering and sorrow. The solution to child hunger starts with you. Answer the anguished cries of a child like brian. Dont wait call now and save lives. For being only five years old little leila is extremely brave. She makes her way through the dangerous and dismal slums of nairobi, kenya, every day, scavenging for food. Severe, gnawing hunger drives her every step, searching in places so horrible they defy description. The day we met leila, she was happy. Happy because her scavenging turned up a valuable treasure for her and her family a halfeaten, rotten corn cobb. What most people throw aside as trash, children like leila fight to keep. Her baby sister, also ravaged with hunger, was desperate for as much of that rotten corn cobb as possible. To look into the faces of these beautiful children youd never imagine the brutal world theyre trapped in. A world where theres barely any food, no clean water, ruthless disease, and no escape from horrific poverty. Leilas mother is on her own, trying to provide for her children in these dismal conditions. In the slums where they live, work is nearly impossible to come by. Unimaginable deprivation is the way of life here, with nowhere to turn for help. What hope is there for children like leila . Will she even survive the starvation and disease that are attacking her small body . The cries of a hungry generation will be answered only in the hearts and actions of compassionate people like you. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future for just 49 cents a day only 15 a month. Thanks to the donated food we receive, your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. Call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Benedict is very close to becoming one of the millions of children who die every year from hunger. But benedict is not a number. Hes a sixyearold boy who wants to play and learn and enjoy life, but tragically he cant. Hes too sick and poor to do much of anything at all. Compared to a normal, healthy boy his age, benedict is shockingly smaller. This is all due to malnutrition. Along with starving, benedict is also suffering from tb and yellow fever. Despite being dangerously ill himself, benedicts dad goes out every day searching for work, desperate to earn something so he can feed his sick, hungry child. But in the slums of nairobi, kenya, joblessness is as common as starvation and disease. The painful truth is that with no food benedict has no future. Every day hes inching closer to death. But right now you can start saving the life of a child like benedict by picking up your phone and dialing that tollfree number. After asharas mother died and her father left the family, shes been living with her aunt and five cousins in this tiny manyatta. Life is extremely brutal for the maasai in maparasha, making the care of six children almost unbearable for asharas aunt. The extreme drought and poverty in their village are causing them to slowly starve. And lack of water puts them at risk of dehydration, which is just as deadly. It comes down to whether hunger or thirst will kill them first. Shangua is another child in this droughtstricken village whose life is at risk from hunger. His frail, 78yearold grandmother is the only one raising him and his four siblings. She has no way of earning money for food, so theyre forced to depend on the kindness of neighbors to give them any scrap of food they might have left over. But that rarely happens. The stark reality of this boys uncertain future cannot be masked. Shangua and his family are starving to death. Time is running out for children like ashara and shangua. Theyre suffering and wasting away. So please, pick up the phone and call now for just 15 a month you can help feed three children and you may even save their lives. We had been told that there was this turkana village that we were going to go visit. We were told where it was, so we drove out into the desert, in probably what is one of the most remote places ive ever been. We parked our car and started walking. The people there were very, very welcoming. They invited us to come into the village to talk with them. When we arrived there, they had no food. Wed found out that they didnt have any water, so thats the first thing we did. We gave them some of our water. Then they invited us into one of their huts. We went in and sat down and they just talked to us about their situation. So they had goats that they had, were raising, and because of the drought the goats didnt have enough food or water and so the goats died. Its sad to see a family like this. Akeenos father speaks english. Hes educated, but obviously he has no chance to make a living here in turkana. And now hes come to a point where he cant even feed his children. As a father, how does that make you feel . When you look at akeeno, he is just so malnourished. It just breaks your heart to see the way his cheeks are drawn in and the ribs, you can just count each of the ribs on him. He is in really bad shape. What will happen if there is no help . No child should have to suffer the terrible pain of hunger and starvation. No mother should ever endure the heartbreak of watching her child waste away and die, powerless to save them. Theres so much need here. I mean, theres so much need and so many beautiful children here that it only takes just a little bit of what we have to help change their life. Call feed the children now and help save a childs life and future. For just 49 cents a day only 15 a month you can help provide nourishing food for three children every month. How is it possible to do so much for so little . Feed the children receives millions of dollars worth of food and essentials from leading corporations and food suppliers. Thanks to this donated food your monthly gift of 15 multiplies five times in value to ship 75 worth of lifesaving food and essentials. Thats enough to help feed three desperate children month after month. Every little thing that we can do is just such great need. These little babies are just precious. And you just want to scoop them up and take them home. Right now millions of girls and boys in the worlds poorest countries depend on the nutritious food that feed the children delivers to their villages and schools. Many of these little ones would certainly suffer and die without help. Thats why we urgently need your support today. Chronic hunger and malnutrition arent just painful. They can stunt a childs growth for life, affecting their Brain Development and i. Q. , and cause children to fall prey to parasites, malaria and other killer diseases. If we dont take a stand and try to influence help, give some of our abundance to these little children, we may lose another generation. Call now or go online. Become a feed the children partner. Help rescue three children from hunger and starvation every month. Can you imagine anything more meaningful you could do with 15 a month . Anything more urgent than saving childrens lives . Its hard to believe in hope, or believe in the good news, or believe in a god when you cant even eat. And so i think we have an obligation. Im here to do what i can and to be his hands and feet. I hope other people will get involved and help. Your taxdeductible gift of 15 a month is all it takes to feed three children every month. Every dollar you give multiplies five times to save childrens lives. Feed the children is a fourstarrated charity. Pick up the phone now, or search feed the children. Reach out a hand of hope to children whose lives and futures are in danger. No child should die of hunger today. Not when its so easy to save them. So dont wait call the number on your screen now or search feed the children. Children like michael. Far removed from the conscience of the world, michael cries himself to sleep from the pain of hunger that never goes away. And sadly, theres no one who can answer his cries for food. Thats because michael and his sister, sharon, live with their mother and baby brother in the slums of nairobi, kenya. This is a place so horrible it defies description. The filth is unimaginable, the Living Conditions deplorable. Daily life is filled with death and despair. Imagine the horror of living in such a place. No running water, no electricity, no sewage system, and barely any food. For americans this would seem like the end of the world. But for michael and his family this is everyday life. Michaels mother, heartbroken and hopeless, does all she can to try and feed her children. But here hard work barely earns you 1 a day, if youre lucky. And thats never enough for rent and daily food. So many times these precious children just suffer for days with nothing to eat and nowhere to go for help. Your help and your phone call can save a childs life. Ill always remember brians eyes. They were big and brown. They were beautiful. Hes unforgettable. Ill never forget his sweet face and his beautiful eyes. Most of the time when we were there, though, sadly his eyes were filled with tears. He was just so sick. He had tb. He had pneumonia. He had hiv, and on top of all that, he was malnourished. His mother had died from aids and he was left with his aunt. Brian was essentially an orphan. Aids, it takes away so many parents there, and then these children have to go live in horrible situations because thats the only option that they have. Every day brians aunt would leave the house to try to go make money for the family. She was basically going to the city dump to forage for things, whether it was to sell them or for the family to eat. But brian would sit alone every day in the house by himself while she was out trying to make money. I just cant imagine what a mother would be going through to feel, you know, what she would feel like to have to leave her child like that, but its life or death. So we realized that brians situation was, it was desperate and we needed to act right then. He was so sick, so we took him to the hospital and the hospital staff did everything they could for a couple of weeks. But he didnt make it. Brian died. There are so many children just like brian, who died. And the solution to this problem is as simple as food. This is the sad reality. A child dies every few seconds from hunger. I mean, in the time that it took me to just say that another child has died. What feed the children does is a matter of life and death for these children. Together, we can feed more children and we can save more lives. And we can save more brians from dying way too soon. The philippines is called the pearl of the orient seas, with 7,000 islands of breathtaking beauty. Her people are friendly, hardworking, and devoted to their families. Yet poverty is epidemic, and unemployment is skyrocketing. Millions of philippinos live in crowded slums with poor sanitation. Children are vulnerable to lifethreatening diseases, and hunger is a constant enemy. Kimberly and her cousin bernedette were abandoned when they were only babies, so their grandmother took them in to care for them. Faustina is a widow with no one to turn to for help. Many days there is no food for them. There are times that ill cook rice only twice a day and then at times no rice, or no rice to cook. So every time that i have nothing to buy for food, ill just go and beg some food for them so that i can give something for my grandchildren. Kimberly is well aware of their struggles, especially when theres no food for them. I can feel that our situation is not that good. John and his three brothers live in one of the largest slums in the philippines. They share their toys, and enjoy playing together. But theres a deep sadness in their hearts since they lost their father in a tragic accident. Their mother lives with the agony of a broken heart while she struggles to provide for her sons on a very small pension. I receive 60. And when i receive that money, i go and have some groceries, buy some rice, buy some canned goods and noodles for us to eat. But that amount is not enough, that money is not enough. We still need to pay for the water we use and for the School Tuition fee. So its very hard. Think of trying to provide for three hungry children on just 60 a month. Miraluna told us there are days they have hardly any food in their home. I feel so sorry for my children because i know that food is very imp