A Life-Saving Formula

"Kids Against Hunger" blessed the orphans of Food for Orphans last year by donating mover one-half million highly-nutritious meals.

The formulation of these meals was the result of the combined efforts of executives and researchers from Cargill, Pillsbury, General Mills, and Archer Daniels Midland. These scientists formulated a good that would meet all the nutritional requirements of severely malnourished children for physical growth and mental development.

The result was the creation of a balanced, high-nutrition food that can reverse the starvation process and restore a child's health and mental alertness.

The meal ingredients are formulated by food scientists to provide a rich source of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates and vitamins needed by an undernourished child's body and mind. The food is also acceptable to the broad diversity of ethnic tastes and religious differences around the world. The food offers all 9 of the essential amino acids required for complete nutrition; something that can't be said about other typical food relief sources such as rice or beans alone. it is also very simple to prepare: requiring only one cup of boiling water to make a complete meal.

Thanks to the generous gifts of several donors, we raised the money to ship the first container with 285,000 meals to the Central Africal Republic. As noted in a previous post, the African children loved the meals.

We recently shipped another container to our Dominican Republic orphanages. Recent hurricanes wreaked havoc on the island and it's people. Thankfully, our orphanages were not affected by the earthquake that leveled Port au Prince, Haiti.

Can we Count on You?

It takes 150 people, donating $150 each to ship one container of food. Each $150 gift will provide 1,900 healthy meals to orphans.

Will you become one of the "Special 150" and make a gift to ship this wonderful miracle of highly-nutritious food to the orphans who need it desperately?

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

Another container of food is ready to ship.

It's not often a miracle happens multiple times. Food for Orphans was recently contacted and told that another container of this very nutritious food was going to be available to ship very soon. Now that is really a miracle!


Now we have a unique opportunity to ensure that more orphans will receive a life-saving meal every day. 285,000 meals are ready to go, but they have to just sit there until we can ship them.


If you would like to ship 1,000 of these meals to the orphans in the Dominican Republic, then make your donation for $75. This shipment is ready to go, it literally is waiting for shipment.

Be like Jesus ... Feed 5,000

If you make your donation for $375, we will be able to ship 5,000 of these pre-packaged meals to the orphans. Jesus fed 5,000, and now so can you.

We need your help now. So please log on to http://www.foodfororphans.org/ and make a sacrificial gift today.

GIVING BACK: Feeding orphans is couple’s mission

The darkness of cancer hasn't extinguished the light that impassions Gary and Renee VanDyke to feed hungry orphans. Although both were striken with cancer last year, donations to the nonprofit organization, Food for Orphans, grew 4,000 percent from 2007 to 2008.

"The desire to help orphans is universal. It's been phenomenal," Gary says.

Gary has witnessed first hand the realities of orphans who are barely surviving. In the Central African Republic orphanages are full and children living on the streets create human piles at night to keep warm while they sleep. AIDS is rampant in many countries. In Thailand, evidence of the flourishing child sex trade is obvious and seemingly unstoppable.

"There's a big difference seeing it on TV and walking into a village of poverty, seeing the need and feeling it under your feet and tasting it on your tongue," Gary says. "I found organizations were helping with education and health care, but no one was focusing on food for orphans."

A visit to Myanmar has already been made this year, where they found the orphanage they were supporting had burned to the ground in a kitchen accident. The children were distributed to other orphanages to live while they waited for the slow wheels of government beauracracy to turn in order to rebuild. Gary and Renee plan to visit South Africa and the Dominican Republic this year. Other countries where they support orphanages include Venezuela, Liberia and Peru. They also want to visit Haiti, Cambodia and China to see about starting projects in those countries.

"Children hear the Gospel,but they aren't required to become Christians or agree. We're talking about survival here!" Gary says.

Renee says, "It's rewarding to visit and see the difference in children from when they began the program. They no longer have lice; their hair is shiny. They are healthy looking. You can see the impact."

To Help: http://www.foodfororphans.org/ or call 719-591-7777.