Orphans in Africa say "THANK YOU"

Hundreds of donors like you contributed to the special shipment of pre-packaged, chicken-flavored rice casserole meals to the orphans in the Central African Republic. This is the first time that the orphans had ever seen this kind of food, so they had to learn a new way of cooking.

But when they tasted this new food, they loved it! And as you can see in the pictures, they eat it in the traditional way,with their bare hands! How fun!

Thank you for blessing the orphans with this special shipment. It is exciting to know that together, we have provided them much needed food.

I am sure that you have saved many lives. You are a blessing to these orphans.

To continue to feed these orphans, go to http://www.foodfororphans.org/ and make your donation.

Thinking about the orphans ...

Today there are more than 143 million orphans in the world; and every two seconds another child becomes an orphan.

42,000 new orphans every day
400,000 orphans die every year due to malnutrition
70% say that food is their greatest need
60 million orphans go to bed hungry
90 seconds, each time another orphan dies from malnutrition.

Sixty million orphans cry themselves to sleep every night with pain in their empty bellies ... alone, scared, and hungry. A lack of food is the orphan's biggest problem.

"The first three years of life are the most critical period of brain growth and development. Child hunger causes physical and mental impairment that may never be reversed. Child hunger also creates tremendous costs that are completely unavoidable. There is no better investment in a prosperous future than investing in ending childhood hunger." [John Cook, Ph.D., of the Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine, a nationally-recognized expert on child hunger ... http://feedingamerica.org/newsroom/press-release-archive/child-food-insecurity.aspx]

The mission of Food for Orphans is to make sure that as many orphans as possible receive at least one nutritious meal per day. But we can't do it without you. Please help us feed these precious orphans.

Make a difference in the life of an orphaned child. Show them that someone cares. Become their Champion.

Go to http://www.foodfororphans.org/. and make your pledge.