SOUTH BEND, IN – A local non-profit, Feeding The Nations (FTN), will be shipping over 285,000 meals to Zambia thanks to the efforts of Fox Valley Lutheran High School, Appleton, Wis. On April 22 and 23, the students will be packaging 42,000 pounds of high-quality rice, vegetable and chicken flavor meals that are fortified with vitamins and minerals. FTN will then send the meals to Zambia to continue its support of 17 Christian orphanages and schools, feeding 5,000 needy children each day.
“We are always grateful for partnerships and helping hands that make feeding hungry nations possible,” said Steve Sumrall, FTN president. “To have a high school so willing to give up two days for such a cause is awe-inspiring. We commend them for their desire to roll up their sleeves, take action and feed thousands of hungry children.”
To make the shipment possible, FTN and Fox Valley are working alongside another organization. Impact Lives is providing $25,000 to buy necessary food and packing supplies. FTN will be covering the $13,000 shipping costs. In the last five years FTN has provided nearly six million dollars worth of food to the children in Zambia.
For those who want to help feed Zambia or create a similar opportunity for a school or organization, please visit www.FeedingTheNations.org or contact FTN at 574-968-1566.
Feeding The Nations is a non-profit 501(c) (3) International Christian humanitarian relief organization with supporting international offices. FTN is a division of Provident® whose ministries are headquartered in South Bend, Ind. The mission of FTN is to deliver food, medicine, new clothing and other necessities to families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or other natural disasters. For more information, you can write Feeding The Nations, P.O. Box 2438, South Bend, Ind. 46680 or visit www.FeedingTheNations.org.
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When will we wake up and realize that we are being enslaved by all this humanitarian aid? Especially when it’s in the form of food. These orphanages honestly, need assistance to become self reliant. It’s shameful that this mentality continues unabated. You know, during KK’s times, the country was handicapped by all the “free” education, health, food, etc. This attitude is still doing its damage today. I just hope that the new generation of Zambians will be more self reliant and resourceful, learn to be entrepreneurial and refuse hand-outs that enslave them.[-(
I would suggest that foreign aid donors stop sending food and use the money instead to support the struggling food producers, specifically famers in Zed. By spending the aid money to purchase food grown in our country, the donors would help to stimulate the economy and create jobs. Both of which the country is in desperate need of. In addition, I for one don’t trust the quality of the food that is brought in the country through such channels. We have been used enough for experiments and I think it’s time we took action. Amalwele yafulushya! 😮 And the same people will be back selling us drugs at exorbitant prices! What a joke [-x
I think its so much more complicated than that…was just at a talk given by Kofi Anan, the problem goes all the way up to the people who govern it, ultimately change has to first come from them, but that isn’t happening so efforts to help are always at a standstill, short of a (horror or horrors) US-like invasion to rebuild the country from scratch will be needed actually…but people do what they can, what more can you ask of high schoolers? commendable at the least