Prime Inc. donates money to Kids Against Hunger to provide 100,000 meals for Haiti
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| Robert Low presenting a check from Prime, Inc. |
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Robert Low, owner of Prime, Inc., presented Kids Against Hunger with a check to pay for 100,000 healthy meals for the people of Haiti. The collection project was headed up by one of Prime’s employees, Verna Bailey. Verna with the help of other associates collected donations from drivers, office and shop associates. The owners of Prime, Robert and Lawana Low matched the money collected from the associates therefore doubling the number of meals to be provided to the Hungry people of Haiti. Prime has helped support Kids Against Hunger over the last two years by making donations as well as packaging meals.
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140,000 Meals For Haiti Just Days After The Earthquake
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Just days after the earthquake in Haiti Kids Against Hunger was able to donate meals for the Haitian people. Convoy of Hope was able to ship within days of the earthquake and their shipment included 140,000 meals. The food provides a well balanced meal that will help sustain malnourished people. Thanks to the donations we received last year and the people who volunteered their time, we had food ready to go. The first of March we will ship an additional 250,000 meals along with medical supplies, ready to eat food such as peanut butter, and personal items.
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Schweitzer United Methodist Is Committed To Help Hungry People
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Schweitzer United Methodist has supported Kids Against Hunger for over a year now and plans to continue to do so again this year. The missions' board has agreed to continue financial support for K.A.H. And members of the congregation will package meals every other month throughout the year. They normally supply about 200 hours of volunteer work the second Saturday of odd numbered months. Together we are making a difference.
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Prime, Inc. participates in Make A Difference Day by Donating over $3,000 and Packaging Meals for two hours.
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| Prime Associates Packaging Meals |
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Prime, Inc. organized a group of their associates for the purpose of supplying food to the Springfield Area. Associates at Prime collected contributions and packaged meals for Kids Against Hunger- Springfield. Robert Low of Prime matched all funds collected and donated by Prime associates allowing KAH to provide over 20,000 to Rural Compassion for distribution to needy families in the rural area around Springfield. There is a great need in the rural areas around Springfield and the efforts of Prime's Associates will help fill that need.
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Commerce Bank Managers make a cash donation and package meals
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Commerce Bank made a much needed cash contribution to Kids Against Hunger. Every year Commerce Bank provides support to various local non-profit organizations. This year the members of Retail Management Team from Commerce Bank made a cash contribution and packaged meal at K.A.H. The Branch Managers from Lebanon, Bolivar, Nixa, Republic, Willard, Ozark, Branson and Springfield Commerce Banks gave their time to help those less fortunate by teaming up with Kids Against Hunger – Springfield and packaging the meals.
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KAH-Springfield ships a container of meals to Life Line Christian Mission in Haiti. Life Line is a well established Faith Based organization with a proven track record for feeding hungry people in Haiti, Honduras and now Cuba. We visited Life Line in May and are pleased to report they have a wonderful organization with adequate controls and a clear and concise mission. We plan to continue to provide meals for the Life Line Mission.
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| Students from Pipkin Middle School |
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04-08-2009 Pipkin Middle School Makes A Difference Tuesday, April 7th, Pipkin Middle School Students took time out of their busy schedule to package food for the less fortunate. Amy Rosser is the teacher in charge of organizing and coordinating the volunteer effort of Pipkin Middle School. Once a month about 50 students help package meals. Tuesday the students packaged over 11,000 meals in two hours exceeding their self imposed goal of 10,000 meals.
We thank Pipkin for their dedication to helping those less fortunate. They are MAKING A DIFFERENCE one meal at a time.
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Grace Celebrates Her Birthday By Giving Other Children A Gift
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| Grace with her Friends |
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A special THANK YOU to Grace for celebrating her Birthday with us. Grace not only organized a packaging session with Kids Against Hunger but she asked in lieu of gifts her friends and family donate money to Kids Against Hunger. Grace has a passion for those less fortunate and that was made very clear with her generous contribution to helping hungry people Grace's friends and family donated over $400 which will fund 2,850 meals or feed 30 children people for a month.
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| Brent loading the truck bound for Mexico |
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March 20th we shipped 72,000 meals to Vineyard Missions in Mexico. They are a faith based mission with the purpose of improving the life of the people they serve. They provide meals to 5 different locations one being a Dump site community.
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On March 26th Kids Against Hunger will ship 285,000 meals to Food for the Poor to support their work in Jamaica. Food For The Poor (FFP) was established in 1982 and is a non-profit corporation with the mission to improve the health, economic, social and spiritual conditions of people throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
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| Shipping Food to Jamaica |
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January Missions Trip To Tanzania
We were able to see KAH food at work in the Children's center in Singida Town, Tanzania. It was a blessing and the children are getting healthier with every meal they receive and every drink of clean water they take. Many of the children eat only one meal a day. 350 Children eat lunch each day. In order to eat at the center a child has to attend school. We need your help to get more children in school and eating. Education will help break the cycle of poverty in Tanzania. The average income in this area is about $2 a day. Many of the children of the street have lost parents to AIDS or other illness but some of them have parents, but the parents have been forced to make the impossible choice of turning out one or more children into the streets because they can not provide for all the members of the family. The street children steal, or adapt unhealthy life styles to survive on the streets. I will never forget one imaging of Africa, those children outside the gates of the center, they will NOT even have one healthy meal a day. We are launching a special program to buy school uniforms, get them in school and feed the street children of Singida and Manyoni, Tanzania.
With your help we can provide a promising future for the children of Tanzania.
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| Grace Thank you for sharing your Birthday |
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| 174 Members of Schweitzer United Methodist |
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| Pipkin Middle School Volunteer |
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Make a Difference Day was a huge success
We had over 50 volunteers and packaged 17,700 meals.
Who helped: Our youngest volunteer was five and came with her older sister and mother
Girl Scout troops 628 and 283 came for two hours
Supporters from Prime helped for three hours
Friends from Schweitzer helped for 3 hours
Fifteen young men and women from Hartville Freewill Baptist came for 1 hour
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Donating Food to the Local Food Pantries
The feeding pantries in Springfield are experiencing about a 30% increase in the number of families receiving assistance, many of these families are receiving assistance for the first time.
The Kitchen is the largest provider of services for homeless children and families in Southwest Missouri. They feed and shelter many families from our area. They have feeding programs at several locations. We donated 7,000 meals to the Kitchen. Please help us expand this program so we may continue to give them the greatly needed meals.
The Salvation Army in Springfield uses our meals in their feeding programs.
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Life Line Missions in Haiti
Wednesday, July 30th we loaded and shipped a container with 256,608 meals to Haiti. The food will be distributed by Life Line Ministries, and New Hope Haiti Mission, and Balan Ministries in Haiti. The three organizations have experience with food distribution and accountability. They work with many schools and churches and have established feeding programs primarily for children and some families. They also operate schools, medical facilities, and a dental office. Volunteer Doctors help with short term medical missions to provide complete services for the poorest of the poor.
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Kids Against Hunger Global needs our help
to complete a container for Haiti
We were able to help KAH -Global in Tulsa, OK complete a container. They picked up 100,000 meals from our warehouse on April 25, 2008. Feeding Children International, Stewart, MN also provided 100,000 meals, that coupled with KAH-Global 85,000 meals completed a container.
Haiti has a large population of extremely poor people living in substandard living conditions. The 285,000 meals will provide much needed relief for the many missions in Haiti. One of the orphanages we helped support has 209.
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| Thank you Sundets for Deliverying Food |
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Iowa Flood Victims Need Food
Rose and Mark Sundet along with their children picked up 4,000 meals from our Kids Against Hunger-Springfield location and will deliver the food to Waverly, IA to aid the flood victims in that area. The Sundet's have volunteered many times at Kids Against Hunger and are wonderful supporters of our cause. The Vineyard Church in Waverly, IA along with other churches in the area were also affected by the storms, but after clearing away water and damaged materials they joined in the recovery process for the community, by offering assistance and food to the community. So our food will be a welcome relief to their feeding program and food bank. The Vineyard Church of Waverly will distribute the Kids Against Hunger meals to the families affected by the tragedy.
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DesMoines and Outreach, Inc Package 4 MILLION MEALS:
DesMoines, Iowa Churches team up with Outreach, Inc. from Union, Iowa to set up a city-wide event to package 3 million meals in one week. The event was called Meals of the Heartland with the help of many churches, girl scouts, boy scouts, and other civic groups they met and exceed their goal and packaged 4,000,000 meals. Several K.A.H. joined together to help at the Packaging Event; Feeding Children International of Stewart, MN, Kids Against Hunger, Naples- Kids Against Hunger, K.A.H. of DesMoines, International Outreach, Inc and, Kids Against Hunger Springfield. The group furnished meals to many different organizations in the U.S. and around the world.
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