End Hunger … Change the World!!!!

Stop Hunger Now seeks to open warehouse in Mississippi.

Stop Hunger Now is an organization that provides direct food relief in crisis areas and in areas where chronic hunger and malnutrition exists. Its innovative model of developing international partnerships, as well as working with indigenous organizations, has created a responsive, timely method of distributing life-saving aid and services by the most economical means possible.

In ongoing efforts to end world hunger, Stop Hunger Now's goal is to build at least one warehouse on each of the major continents, keeping a minimum of five to 10 million servings of food at each location. Stop Hunger Now wants to duplicate its successful warehouse operation not just overseas, but also in several regions of the country. For this reason, the Mississippi Conference is in the process of enlisting donors, supporters and volunteers to help establish a warehouse right here in our state.

Ending hunger is possible within the lifetime of our children. The way it is (25,000 dying of hunger everyday) is not the way it needs to be. The United Nations estimates that through school lunch feeding programs similar to one’s used by Stop Hunger Now (SHN) hunger can be cut in half in the next 25 years.

SHN works to end hunger through:
Emergency Relief: Providing food and aid immediately following a crisis situation
School Feeding Programs: Supplying schools in crisis areas with high protein, vitamin enriched, dehydrated rice-soy meals
Capacity Building: Supporting partnership organizations with capacity building grants designed to improve local program infrastructure and support programs

By using minimal organizational staff, SHN is able to maximize the amount of aid delivered to people in need. SHN has provided over $44 million dollars worth of aid to more than 65 countries worldwide.

This volunteer driven and supported ministry has become a very popular missions event and last year. At Annual Conference, there were over 100,000 meals packaged by 400 volunteers in only 2 days, way ahead of the estimated completion time. The food packaged consists of dehydrated, fortified rice-soy meals containing over 20 vitamins and minerals especially formulated for the undernourished. The meals are vacuum-sealed in bags three millimeters thick. This popular and successful mission activity has also been staged at Galloway in Jackson, Meridian First and Shaeffers Chapel, Columbus and at the University of Southern Mississippi in years past.

If you, your church, mission group, civic group or social club is interested in helping get a Stop Hunger Now warehouse started here in Mississippi, please contact Mike Ward at MHJBWARD@aol.com or Jorge Navarrete at Jorge@mississippi-umc.org.

Jorge