away."
I took this from someone else's post today from www.familyhopelove.com. The crazy thing is it describes most of us. It is so hard to truly care more about using our time, energy, and resources to store up treasure in heaven verses temporary treasure on earth. If we could only grasp the shortness of our time here and the reality of Eternity.
The below email came to us yesterday from International Teams. As we ate our dinner of leftovers from our abundance of food from the evening before, we were reminded of the fact that we are given much so we can give much. I know I have mentioned this stat before...but lets not let these children below become part of it...26,000 children EACH day die due to malnutrition or preventable disease.
Jake and Jennifer from the below article are from our hometown of Hudsonville and are members of my parents and siblings church.
Food Needed for Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi
- Photos of from Dzaleka Refugee Camp. Used with permission.
Jake and Jennifer Tornga are working in the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi. The World Food Program and Malawi Red Cross has cut the monthly ration of maize given to refugees in half, from 14 kg to 7 kg per person.
The Torngas’ team leader, Innocent Magambi, who is himself a former refugee who lived at Dzaleka, knows firsthand that 14 kg per person is not enough to live on for one month. Cutting that amount in half presents an extremely difficult situation for these refugees.
Although food provision is not normally an area of focus for the team in Malawi, Jake Tornga says, “This is a very serious crisis and we are looking at ways we can help.”
Making a donation to provide access to food can help save lives and alleviate some of the extra measure of suffering these refugees are experiencing. Please consider enabling the team in Malawi to help those in need by making a donation.
16,000 refugees and asylum seekers live at Dzaleka refugee camp, Malawi, Africa, and the World Food Program has been providing a basic food package to these refugees since the 1990s. However due to the increasing numbers of refugees in the region, the global financial crisis, and this being a long-standing refugee camp which no longer attracts much press coverage, food stock has almost run out. The basic food package was already not nutritionally complete, and since the beginning of March 2012, refugees have only been receiving 50% of the normal package.
We are raising money towards covering the shortfall of corn received by refugees between now and the end of 2012. Corn is the staple food of this region, and the most important food need at this time. $10 will cover the corn shortfall for 1 person for 1 month. $80 will cover the corn shortfall for 1 person for the rest of the year. The overall financial shortfall facing the WFP for 2012 is more than $1.8 million.
When such a crisis hits a refugee camp like Dzaleka, prostitution increases, child labor increases as children are taken out of school, and the medically fragile (HIV positive, disabled, elderly, nursing mothers) are at risk of rapid deterioration in their health.
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