Hunger makes people do desperate things. When parents cannot provide for their families, children are abandoned at orphanages, forced to work in horrible conditions, denied educations and worse. By providing nutritious food to children through schools or orphanages and to families living in refugee camps, we are working against the desperation of hunger and giving children hope for their future.
From Robert Luvinia of Army Trumpet in Zion Ministries in Uganda:
"At moment we are experiencing famine in our area due to the rains which took long to come back thus affecting the early harvests which normally takes place in April/ May. This Has greatly affected our budget. I know by the time the food gets delivered it will help us alot not only the orphans but also some of the people in our communities whom we support."
Robert has been able to use Kids Against Hunger meals packaged by our volunteers to feed children who have lost parents to HIV/AIDS and others in the community. He said, "Thank you for Donating and touching lives of such people."
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The staff at Three Angels Children's Relief/Three Angels Christian Academy in Petionville, Haiti reports: "I learned over the weekend that the rice and beans TAs receives for some of the lunches has been out on hold; therefore, the students have not been receiving lunch since the start of the new school year.... We both agree [the KAH food] is a much better choice for the children nutritionally as well as economically. We would like to continue receiving the food from you and will put shipping costs into our fundraising needs for 2013 to ensure we can get it to the mission."
The mission of Kids Against Hunger, a humanitarian food-aid organization, is to significantly reduce the number of hungry children in the USA and to feed starving children throughout the world.
In 2009, Karen Dittman (board president) and Rebecca Coors (former board member) traveled to Haiti with a small team to explore potential partnerships with organizations working with children and orphans in that country. While there, they met a group from Kids Against Hunger - Tulsa who had been in the country distributing food for two weeks. After learning about Kids Against Hunger's nutritious food and simple packaging process, Karen and Rebecca agreed to look into starting a KAH satellite in the Erie/Lafayette area.
We are one of approximately 100 Kids Against Hunger satellites in the US (and one of 3 in Colorado). We began operations in the Spring of 2010 following Haiti's devastating earthquake, intending to be part of the long-term solution to restoring that country to self-sufficiency.
Nationally, Kids Against Hunger was started by Richard Proudfit, a successful Minnesota businessman, who traveled in 1974 to Honduras with a medical relief team to aid survivors of Hurricane FiFi. At first Richard was so busy with his engineering and repair work that he did not see all the misery around him and then something happened that changed his life forever. He recalls, "It wasn't long until I began to see the children - literally dying around us. One mother came to me crying, carrying her nearly dead child, pleading for help. That is when the Lord broke my heart and brought me to my knees and I knew that I had to come back to do something about it."
He then contacted food scientists at General Mills, Pillsbury, Cargill and Archer Daniels Midland and asked them to develop a formula that would meet the daily nutritional requirements to reverse the starvation process in a child. The end product had to be acceptable to all cultures around the world, easy to transport, store and prepare. The result was the food packet used by Kids Against Hunger today. The unplanned, but very real, beneficiaries of Kids Against Hunger are the volunteers who package the food. The manual food packaging process not only feeds many children, it also brings satisfaction and deep engagement to the volunteers who package it. After two hours of time spent packaging, a group can easily create enough meals to feed fourteen children for an entire year. To date, Kids Against Hunger has "launched" approximately 100 food packaging satellites in the U.S. and Canada.
Organization name
Kids Against Hunger - Northern Front Range, CO
other names
KAH.Erie, Kids Against Hunger - Erie CO
2009
Tax id (EIN)
27-1836240
Category
Food, Agriculture & Nutrition
Address
6901 W. 117th Ave. #10Broomfield County, CO, US