Your gift of just $30 will feed a family of six nutritious food for one month. Your gift of $300 will feed 10 families of six for one month! Your gift of $1,000 provides the ingredients for 7,000 meals. Help Operation Blessing bring life-saving food to southeastern Africa today!

Our partners understand that more than 13 million southeastern African men, women, and children are facing starvation in the next nine months. You responded when we reported that catastrophic drought, flooding, and economic decline have attributed to food shortages in Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, Lesotho and Swaziland. See how Operation Blessing will help stop desperate mothers from boiling the poisonous Black Jack plant in hopes to calm their children's starvation pains.

Thank you for your support! This week Operation Blessing and a partnering organization were able to send a third container filled with 128,000 meals to the starving men, women, and children of southeastern Africa! It will be the second shipment headed for Zambia's hungry.

In late July and in response to Operation Blessing's initial famine relief response, two containers each filled with 128,000 nutritious rice casserole meals began traveling across the ocean to the land-locked countries of Zambia and Malawi . These countries are expected to be among the hardest hit with famine. Both population's life expectancy during non-emergency times is just 37 years.

Upon their arrival this month, the food will be distributed into the hands of those experiencing immediate need through Operation Blessing's established in-country network. "The food will get to the people of south eastern Africa," expressed Operation Blessing's determined COO Bill Horan. "They must be helped. They can't help themselves."

Every passing minute is crucial for those living in rural areas. Southeastern Africa's rainy season begins in October. Water will wash out and flood pathways, making it difficult to reach those in need of famine relief. In addition, many already live in areas filled with malnutrition (UN Integrated Regional Information Networks). Without the help of their world neighbors, this impending famine will heighten the probability of certain death.

Operation Blessing can assist you in being a world neighbor to Africa. We have a broad history of helping its citizens. It includes sending flood relief to Mozambique, digging water wells in Uganda, supporting Angolan and Nigerian orphan programs, developing micro-enterprise projects in South Africa, building homes for Tanzanian flood victims, providing relief for Sudanese refugees as well as conducting medical missions in Kenya and Ghana. Much must be done for these now starving people! Together we can save lives at this critical time.

HOW YOU CAN HELP
You can help by making an online donation toward OBI's disaster relief efforts. With your support, we can continue to provide emergency relief and recovery. Please make an on-line donation today.

 

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