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SERVING ALL MY PATIENTS TRAPPING COOKING HAITIANS HOW TOWe offer a 2-year Agricultural Training Program to Haitians who want to learn how to grow their food for their families successfully and to sell in the marketplace. Love A Child wants to help Haitians, learn to help themselves. You have to teach them how to improve their soil, teach them about proper irrigation, and give them the tools and skills to grow food for their families. You can’t just tell the people to grow their own food. We want to help Haitians learn to grow their food, and this is a “work in progress.” It has always been challenging to grow food here in Haiti because of the deforestation over the last century that has removed most of the topsoil on the island. We want to help feed the Haitians, so they can work and provide for their families, and we want them to become self-sufficient. This food is helping save thousands of children from starvation and malnutrition, but we want to do more. We still need to find more sponsors each month for the other six containers. This valuable and nourishing food is necessary for the children. This is a great blessing for Haiti’s poor. SERVING ALL MY PATIENTS TRAPPING COOKING HAITIANS FULLJoyce Meyer Ministries – Hand of Hope sponsors one full container, and Jentezen Franklin sponsors another. Feed My Starving Children donates this food to us each month, and with the help of our Love A Child partners, we pay the shipping and customs cost, etc. We must bring eight 40-foot containers of food to Haiti each month to meet this great need. Children are eating from garbage dumps, eating cookies made from dirt, and even being “sold” so parents can feed their other children!įeeding hungry children and their families here in Haiti is a great burden upon our shoulders. We have never seen things as bad here in all the 26 years that we have been living in Haiti. The natural disasters (earthquake, hurricanes, and floods) over several years in Haiti created a devastating food crisis. Our future is saving the lives of children and preventing starvation, which is a high priority for us here at Love A Child. ![]() We see this in the eyes of the children every day. Starving children are living in filth and searching for food without hope. Haiti has the worst poverty we’ve ever seen. Soon, they could no longer buy food.Īccording to the United Nations World Food Program, “about 3.6 million people - or more than a third of the country’s population - have been driven deeper into poverty and hunger and are struggling to access a reliable supply of food.” With the loss of their crops, people were forced to buy imported food that is too costly for many Haitians. Bobby surveys the damage in Port Salut, Haiti. It will take years for the area to recover. It killed livestock, destroyed crops and businesses. Hurricane Matthew toppled trees and tore apart the simple concrete and sheet-metal houses in the area. Most of the damage was in southwestern Haiti where entire villages were wiped out. As the villages slowly recovered, there would be more misery to come, a national food shortage. When Hurricane Matthew hit Haiti in October 2016, this tiny Caribbean nation suffered the loss of crops, gardens, animals, and thousands of homes were wiped out. Leviticus 19:9-10 This is a large vegetable garden in southern Haiti before the hurricane. And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.” “And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleanings of thy harvest. Below you will learn more about how we provide support for those experiencing the food crisis throughout Haiti. Love A Child operates food distribution programs to help bridge the gap between food needs and sustainaibility. dollar is contributing to more and more people dying of starvation daily. Widespread malnutrition due to the high inflation rates and the devaluation of the Haitian gourde (currency) against the U.S. The political problems here and the danger cannot be understood unless you live here. ![]()
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