News Release

18th December 2008

We ARE Saving Lives in Zimbabwe! Please Help

“We are hungry” – is the phrase that reaches in to your soul everywhere you travel through strife torn Zimbabwe. That’s the report from Michael Alemu of Christian Horizons to Feed The Children UK’s chief executive Brian Main, who has been so moved by the report that he has issued a personal plea for funds.

“The food and essential clothing we have shipped out to the country is making a difference but money is needed to send more to save more lives. It’s a desperate situation,” says Brian.

“As we travelled from house to house delivering a bag of rice and cooking oil and some soap and words of prayers they breakout in songs of praise to God,” adds Michael. “The spirit of God is sustaining people. The food may last only for a few days, but we are sustaining hope, keeping the human spirit alive.”

“We need to send out more containers of essential supplies urgently and to do this we need money and we need it now,” adds Brian. “We have the capability to get the supplies to where they are really needed – it does work. All that is holding us back is money. We think things are getting tight in the UK, but over there people are literally starving.”

In another extract from his report, Michael says, “The people walk in silence, eyes red, bones hanging by skins. They are silent in quiet streets, no laughter, just walking on the side of the road, peering through empty stores, empty shelves, closed doors. Children do not play; schools have been closed for the most part since May. The teachers are not on strike, they just cannot afford the fare to get to schools, and parents could not afford the school fees, and transportation costs.”

“If you can spare just a few pounds, please go to our website (www.feedthechildren.org.uk) and donate on-line or call us 0118 932 0095 to make a telephone donation,” says Brian.

Feed The Children works worldwide, as well as within the UK, to develop sustainable communities and provide food and other necessities for those in great need.  The charity concentrates aid on children suffering the affects of poverty, especially those orphaned or abandoned. The charity believes that wherever there is famine, conflict, disease or poverty, it is always the children who are most vulnerable.

Feed The Children UK registered in 1994 and over the years the charity has helped millions of children and their families both at home and abroad. The charity relies on gifts from generous companies, individuals and organisations to donate the goods and financial assistance needed in order to support the various humanitarian and relief projects.