By Salt 106.5 Network Friday 9 Aug 2024Social JusticeReading Time: 4 minutes

This month we’re partnering with Feed The Hungry to feed 120,000 hungry and vulnerable children.

Key points

• Call 1300 00 55 14 to make your donation today!
• “When hunger is your constant companion, concentration is a distant relative,” Ben Evans said.
• “I’m the only person who is alive from my family. All of my family are dead. The armies shot them on the way with guns. So, I feel sorry,” Alonyo said.
• Join us on Thursday 22 August in a national effort to provide nutritious rice meals to refugee children in Uganda.

August 22 is Take Away Hunger Day!

Things are tough financially for all of us right now, but whatever small amount we can each give – even $6 – will change a life.

“When hunger is your constant companion, concentration is a distant relative,” said Feed The Hungry Australia CEO Ben Evans.

“We’re talking about feeding a child for a whole month with just $6… The meals are provided in a school environment, and we have opportunities to share the gospel.”

“When hunger is your constant companion, concentration is a distant relative,” Ben Evans said.

This means that children can now learn, laugh, dream and play. They get to be kids again. And best of all? They also hear about the God who loves them – and find hope for the future.

Refugee children in Uganda are some of the most vulnerable in the world. They’ve fled violence and tragedy in South Sudan and they’re often alone, hungry and struggling to survive.

Providing a nutritious meal at school every day means they don’t have to worry about their next meal anymore.

Children like 14-year-old Alonyo.

Donate $6 today to feed a child for month.

Meet Alonyo

Alonyo is a young woman who has experienced more suffering than any child should ever have to live through. Born in South Sudan, she came to Uganda as a young refugee, alone.

“I’ve suffered a lot,” she told the Feed The Hungry team.

“I came here in 2016. I was still young, only five years old. There was a war that took place where we were staying. They killed very many people.”

Alonyo had to leave her home on foot in a rising tide of refugees from her community. Tragically, her own family was killed.

Alonyo describes her escape through the horrors in heart-breaking terms: “When you’re walking, you just walk where people are now dead. You move while crying, you move while carrying things.”

When she arrived in Uganda, Alonyo was unaccompanied by any relative and was taken in by a woman whom she calls her stepmother.

“I’m the only person who is alive from my family. All of my family are dead. The armies shot them on the way with guns. So, I feel sorry. I feel sorry.”

Life in the refugee settlement was lonely and it took a long time for her to begin to heal from the trauma she’d been through. The violence and devastation she’d witnessed seemed permanently seared into her mind.

A lifeline

Alonyo loves going to school. Apart from the fun and friendship of her peers – she looks forward to having a filling, nutritious meal each day.

Your support is urgently needed to help provide Alonyo and thousands like her with a healthy meal at school.

Your gift of just $6 on Take Away Hunger Day (August 22) will feed a hungry child at school, for a whole month.

More than a meal, you’ll be helping to provide education and the opportunity to know God’s love!

“I’m the only person who is alive from my family. So, I feel sorry,” Alonyo said.

As her body grows stronger, Alonyo is regaining the ability to study, heal, dream and plan for a new future.

“That’s the plan that I’m having… I have to come to school. I eat food. I’m okay… That’s my plan – to study. I want to become a pilot, to fly to Australia,” she said.

“When we have food at school… we play together, we bang stories together, and we share the Word of God among us. For those who are giving us food, I pray that God should bless them to continue giving us food for eating at school!”

For just $6 today, you provide enough meals to feed a refugee child for a whole month.

Who is Feed The Hungry?

Feed The Hungry is based on Matthew 25 and believes that as Christians we have a biblical responsibility to respond to the injustice of world hunger with actions of compassion that glorify God and affirm His love for a hurting and lost world.

Having been proudly serving since 1987, Feed The Hungry partners with local churches and organisations to provide aid and has provided over 100 million meals around the world.

Join us for Take Away Hunger Day on Thursday 22 August in a national effort to provide nutritious rice meals to refugee children in Uganda.

Donate $6 today to feed a child for month.

Tune in to learn more about how $6 can make a huge impact!

All images supplied by Feed The Hungry and used with permission.