Non-profit Stop Hunger Now - Haiiti

Stop Hunger Now is coordinating a massive effort to assist the earthquake victims in Haiti. We have been in contact with our many partners there and are also working through our strategic partnerships to deliver aid as quickly as possible. Your assistance is incredibly important at this critical time. Donations made to Stop Hunger Now through JChoice will be used to package meals to ship to Haiti. Thank you for supporting Stop Hunger Now and the people of Haiti.

About the program: Stop Hunger Now's Food Packaging Program conducted either on-site at a Sharehouse location or at various locations via a “mobile unit” that carries the ingredients and supplies to the volunteers’ location. This program involves volunteers packaging high protein, dehydrated meals for use in crisis situations and as a highly nutritious food product used in school feeding programs and orphanages around the world.

The meals are a high-protein casserole that includes rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables, and a vitamin fortified flavoring mixture with 21 essential vitamins. Each package contains six nutritious servings at a cost of approximately 25 cents per serving. The unique composition of our meals allows us to respond to the recommendations of the Millennium Development goals.

All we need is the will and the resolve to get the food to those who need it. Hunger is concentrated. We know where to go. We know what to do. Our approach is extremely focused and targeted. We target children who are inheriting hunger. We direct the majority of meals to support school lunch programs in developing countries plagued by poverty and hunger.

Volunteers typically commit to a minimum of two hours at a time. Volunteering at Stop Hunger Now offers a wonderful volunteer opportunity for youth groups, religious organizations, civic and social clubs, schools, colleges and universities, fraternities and sororities.

Stop Hunger Now is a Raleigh-based international hunger relief agency that has been fulfilling its commitment to end hunger for over 10 years. Since 1998, the organization has coordinated the distribution of food and other lifesaving aid to children and families in more than 71 countries.

Stop Hunger Now has become an international leader in humanitarian relief with the distribution of more than $56 million dollars of direct aid and more than 11 million meals.

Stop Hunger Now created its meal packaging program in 2005. The program perfected the assembly process that combines rice, soy, dehydrated vegetables and a flavoring mix including 21 essential vitamins and minerals into small meal packages. Each meal costs only 25 cents. The food stores easily, has a shelf-life of five years and transports quickly.

Stop Hunger Now works with international partners that ship and distribute the meals in-country. The majority of Stop Hunger Now’s meals supply school lunch programs. Due to the ease of assembly and transport, meals can be shipped to areas in crisis.

This process for distribution, through school feeding programs in hunger-stricken regions, is seen as a practical means to end hunger.

• 2006 goal: 1 million meals; 1.7 million were packaged.
• 2007 goal: 2.1 million meals; 3.5 million were packaged.
• 2008 goal: 5.2 million meals; 5.9 million were packaged.

Stop Hunger Now is a 501(c)(3) non-governmental, international relief organization based in Raleigh, N.C. It operates meal package relief programs from its locations in Raleigh, Goldsboro and Charlotte, N.C., and Richmond, Lynchburg, and Hampton Roads, V.A and Jackson, MS.

There are 1.02 billion hungry people in our world today, nearly half are children. To put some perspective on this number, the tragic tsunami of 2004 that swept suddenly across the Indian Ocean destroyed more than 225,000 lives and wrecked the livelihoods of countless millions.

Similarly, the “hunger tsunami” sweeps across the earth every week, killing more than 210,000 people. Every day 25,000 to 30,000 people die of starvation. As Richard Harris reported on National Public Radio, a child dies every fifteen seconds due to malnutrition, a situation equivalent to twenty jumbo jets filled with children crashing every day.

Experts on the subject of hunger agree there is enough food, enough food-processing potential, and enough distribution know-how to end hunger in the world. What is needed is the political will and attention to devote the energy and resources to this important task. Stop Hunger Now is committed to hosting programs that will efficiently end hunger in our lifetime.

The United Nations developed eight Millennium Development goals in the year 2000. These goals are intended to address global issues and end the main threats to human welfare to improve the quality of life for everyone in this world.

The eight MILLENNIUM development goals are:
1. to ERADICATE extreme POVERTY and hunger
2. to achieve UNIVERSAL primary education
3. promote gender equality and empower women
4. to reduce child mortality
5. to improve maternal health
6. to combat HIV/Aids, malaria and other diseases
7. to ensure environmental stability
8. to develop a global partnership for development

It’s important to note that the first Millennium development goal is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. Specifically … to cut hunger in half by the year 2015 by establishing school lunch feeding programs.
According to the World Food Program and Unicef, this first target is critical to all other goals. In fact, it would be nearly impossible to meet the other Millennium Development goals without addressing hunger first. Stopping hunger now, as evidenced by the millennium development goals is simply the foundation on which progress can be built. In order to succeed, in order to accomplish the big tasks, in order to reduce poverty, educate, empower women, prevent disease, prolong lives, we much end world hunger.

Why is Stop Hunger Now's Food Packaging Program so successful? As mentioned above, the United Nations has stated that by establishing school lunch feeding programs around the world, hunger can be cut in half by 2015. Stop Hunger Now’s program provides these much need meals to not only crisis relief efforts but to support sustainable programs likes school lunch feeding programs, and is a fun, hands-on volunteer opportunity for caring people of all ages in churches, civic organizations, and businesses. Through this program, our greatest dream is being realized—thousands of volunteers are learning the value of addressing hunger and are joining Stop Hunger Now in creating a world without hunger. They are taking action by volunteering to package meals and helping spread the word.

The program is sustained through volunteer contributions and sponsorships amounting to 25 cents per meal, which pays for the cost of raw ingredients, packaging, and operational costs. Once the start-up costs are raised and food-packaging levels reach at least 1.1 million meals per year, the program is financially self-sustaining.

Due to the valuable experience Stop Hunger Now’s Food Packaging program provides volunteers, we are experiencing huge demand to establish new locations in at least four states including North Carolina, Virginia, Mississippi, Arizona and South Africa. The demand in these states comes from organizations such as churches, civic organizations, community leaders and universities. Stop Hunger Now’s vision moving into 2010 is to meet the demand we see not only from those suffering from hunger, but also from the compassionate volunteers that want to help them.

Name of Organization:Stop Hunger Now - Haiiti
Number of Paid Staff:14 f/t
Number of Volunteers:50,000
Total Organizational Expenses:$13,425,005
% of Organizational Overhead Expenses:3%

Our program is a hand’s on mission project that allows organizations to work side by side in the fight against hunger. This is much more that just making a donation for our volunteers. They are able to actually participate in the assembly of the meals which gives them a true sense of involvement with the solution of providing meals to feed the world’s hungry.

“We appreciate what Stop Hunger Now has done for the children of Liberia. On behalf of the kids, I extend thanks and appreciation to all of you. It takes people of LOVE like you to do what you are doing through our Ministry for children.”
Frido N. Kinkolenge - Emkweltmission Children Projects Manager in Monrovia, Liberia

“Thanks a lot to you for backing up the efforts and to make this difference in the lives of the people.”
Luc Aristhene - flood victim in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

“Doing this volunteer service was thrilling and made me feel like I was part of something bigger than myself. I filled each bag with love, enthusiasm and excitement, hoping that the people who receive the food will feel those emotions when they eat it.”
Vanessa Boosahda - student at North Carolina State University

“My personal thanks for working and caring to provide food and nutrition to those whom you may never see.”
Alex Pollak - Program Director of Change a Nation, Inc.

“Stop Hunger Now is by far the best thing that Auburn has done for Universities Fighting Hunger to get students excited about fighting hunger. It gave students a fun, hands-on way to fight hunger. It not only got our students excited about making a difference, but also educated and inspired them to stay involved. I can’t wait until our next Stop Hunger Now event!”
Leslie Loyd - student at Auburn University

“It's a pleasure to greet all the members of Stop Hunger Now. I am a Haitian pupil in terminal class this year. I am very appreciative of your work in my country because my country needs it.”
Junior Sainvil - student in Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Ending Hunger - Mazon
Gleanings - Leket (Things collected bit by bit)
Guarding the Earth - L'ovdah U'l'shomrah
Justice and Fairness - Tzedek
Poverty - O’ni
Respect all living things - Kavod HaBriyot
Saving a Life - Pikuach Nefesh

Stop Hunger Now’s meal packaging program is specifically design as a hand’s on project. Groups of all ages can organize a packaging event of their own. Our Stop Hunge;r Now locations throughout North Carolina, Virginia and Mississippi serve the local community and support these meal packaging events. It is our goal to expand all across the country in order to provide the opportunity to package meals throughout the U.S.

Name:Chessney Barrick
Title:Director of Development
Address:2501 Clark Ave. Suite 301, Raleigh, NC 27607
Telephone:(919) 839-0689
Email:cbarrick@stophungernow.org
Website:www.stophungernow.org

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Immediate relief for Haiti - 100% of all donations will support efforts for this Stop Hunger Now program.


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