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Physical Location: 2006 E Phelps, Springfield, MO 65803
Mailing Address: PO Box 7108, Springfield, MO 65801-7108
Phone: 417-773-1639
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We are a non-profit organization with No Paid Employees, fully funtional with volunteers.
ALL SESSIONS ARE HELD AT OUR OFFICE ON PHELPS
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Our Mission
We began in December, 2007 and we have no paid employees. We use volunteers for all jobs at Friends Against Hunger. Our goal is to feed hungry people in the United States and starving people around the world. With the help of volunteers we package well balance meals for the less fortunate.
Our Food
We have two different meals we package. Each meal is a uniquely formulated recipe with the goal to provide a rich source of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates, and vitamins needed by an undernourished child’s body and mind. It is a vegetarian meal that offers 9 of the essential amino acids required for complete nutrition for the mind and body. It is very simple to prepare, requiring only 6-8 cups of boiling water to make a complete meal or a great base for different recipes.
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Questions you may have about our organiztaion:
What do we do?
Answer: We package a specially formulated meal designed to nurse severely malnourished people back to health.
Who can help?
Answer: Volunteers 9 years and older. We have found that children younger than 9 are not able to continue the process for two hours.
Why Do we do this?
Answer: We have a passion for feeding children.
Is the Food Used in the U.S.?
Answer: Yes we provide it to local feeding programs.
Is the outside of the U.S?
Answer: Yes we provide meals to hungry people in other countries.
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People we strive to help "State of the World's Children 2007" conducted by UNICEF, showed 10.1 million children die before they reach their fifth birthday. Almost all of these deaths occurred in developing countries. This means each day over 27,000 children die of starvation or illness attributed to complications related to hunger.
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Around the World
The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving.
In the United States:
37 Million people live at or below the poverty line
Ozarks
150,000 people live at or below the poverty level in the Ozarks
Springfield
Many schools in this area have more than 50% of the students receiving free or reduced meals
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Springfield Area Friends Feeding Friends :
We want to continue to support our community feeding programs at The Kitchen in Springfield. Your help is needed; financial contributions, volunteering and food donations. The goal of this project is to furnish 10 cases of food, each week, to the feeding programs in our area.
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We are in the process of updating the information for 2012
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Famine in Kenya and Somalia cause us to change direction.
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We have 275,000 meals in our warehouse and initially we were going to send food to Haiti, but because the conditions in Kenya have deteriorated to critical levels we feel we need to change our plans. The eastern African countries have experienced horrible drought conditions and that coupled with the civil unrest in Somalia has driving a massive amount of desperate people into Kenya. USAID estimates 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in this area of Kenya in just the last 90 days. We believe the right thing to do is to help the suffering people in Kenya.
We will ship our food to Kenya on Friday, August 12th.. We will immediately order new ingredients and have them shipped to us to begin packaging meals for other poor people around the world.
We need your help – to buy ingredients and to package meals.
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| Toddler Nutrition Program Port Au Prince |
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Helping Haiti Feeding Project:
Haiti has the worse poverty in the Western Hemisphere. The situation was made worse with hurricanes Hannah and Gustav. Life Line Christian Missions and Haiti's New Hope Mission are both well established organizations with proven a proven track record. We will continue to support the people of Haiti and help them get back on their feed.
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Feeding Program in Tanzania:
We provide support in the way of food and uniforms for the 'street' children of Manyoni and Singida town in the Singida Region of Tanzania, East Africa. We plan to work with the community to make sure adequate clean water and food are available for the poorest local children. By offering people access to healthy food and clean water we can help them gain an education in which will give them the possibly of breaking the cycle of poverty. This project will require $49,000 for food, shipping. We can provide a uniform, shoes, school supplies, and food at at cost of $20 per child per month.
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| Distributing Food at the City Dump |
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Meals for Mexico:
We want to support the Missions in Mexico in supplying healthy food to children and families who live off the dumps in Mexico. The down swing in the economy has limited their funds and they have been forced to reduce the number of families they can aid. We need your help to send food to them and supply a healthy diet to the poorest of the poor in Mexico. This project will take about $12,000. Help us supply food for the hungry children of the dump communities.
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