WILL STARVE FOR FOOD

Daily I come home to a house filled with plenty. Plenty of food, family drinks, running water, heat, air conditioning, personal entertainment devices... the list goes on and on.

In the majority of the world, most people live on less then $2.00 per day. Millions of kids in Africa alone, have been orphaned over the last few years. They estimate there will be 20,000,000 million kids orphaned by the year 2012.

Help me make a difference in the life of one child. Together we can and will make a difference.

We have one life. Let's do something with it!!

Join me in raising awareness and funds for hungry and impoverished people, mainly kids, around the world.

In April of 2009, I am going to actively participate in an event called 30 HOUR FAMINE...

For 30 hours, I am committed to:

1. Fasting. No food or liquid of any kind for 30 straight hours.
2. Living in a cardboard box outdoors, no matter the weather. As if I were homeless.
3. Bringing awareness to the current hunger problem within the world.

I am committed because:

1. 1 child dies every 3 seconds. Most of them from preventable causes like: Hunger, Disease or Poverty. That's more then 26,000 children EVERYDAY.
2. In the time it takes you to read this story, 40 children will die.
3. More than 840 million people in the world don't get enough to eat. That's one of every seven people on the planet.
4. 143 million children under age 5 in the developing world are underweight because of poor nutrition. That's about one in three children in developing countries.
5. In the last 50 years, 400 million people worldwide have died from hunger and poor sanitation. That's three times the number of people killed in all wars fought in the entire 20Th century.
6. Moderately underweight children are more than four times more likely to die from infectious disease than are well-nourished children. And under-nutrition contributes to 53 percent of deaths among children under 5 globally.
7. Countries in which a large portion of the population battles hunger daily are usually poor and often lack the social safety nets we enjoy, such as soup kitchens, food stamps, and job training programs. When a family that lives in a poor country cannot grow enough food or earn enough money to buy food, there is nowhere to turn for help.
8. Of the 6.6 billion people in today's world, 2.1 billion live on less than $2 per day.
9. One in ten households in the United States experience hunger or the risk of hunger.

To accomplish this, I need your help.

I ask that you pray for the situation and the event.
I ask that you give what you can of your resources:

HELP FEED HUNGRY BY HELPING ME RAISE $4,000.

For every $1.00 raised, 1 child is fed for 1 day.

Suggested Levels:
$15.00: Paired with one other donor, together you feed a child for one month.
$30.00: Feeds one child for one month.
$90.00: Feeds one child for three months.
$180.00: Feeds one child for six months.
$360.00: Feeds one child for an entire year.
Any amount at all. Whatever you can give is appreciated and helps fight the worldwide issue of hunger. NO gift is too small.

You can contribute directly on my page by clicking on the following link:

http://www.30hourfamine.org/portal/onlinegiving/donate/44966300-001

Visit the WORLD VISION site at:

HTTP://WWW.WORLDVISION.ORG












Please take the time to join the event on facebook called 30 HOUR FAMINE. If you haven't, you will get an invitation. Please take the time to pass this story on to all of your friends and to invite your friends to join the 30 HOUR FAMINE event in an attempt to raise the awareness and to help me raise the necessary funds. With your help, we can reach and exceed the overall goal.

Thanks in advance for your help...

Until next time,
Chip