My heart leapt with joy when I saw these pictures and I wanted to share them with you immediately. Here are children who were starving now eating with dignity. This is the community of Cité-Soleil in Port-au-Prince Haiti that I wrote in an e-letter a couple of months ago. This community received widespread publicity because its children ate dirt to survive. Your immediate response to this reality was so great that within two weeks our staff in Haiti was at work setting up a feeding program at the Wesleyan Church and School in the midst of Cité-Soleil. Now over 100 children are eating everyday and attending school. Teachers are being paid and we operate a daily feeding program for the students in this very dangerous community. Your giving will help us to sustain this critical program.

The second good news I wanted to share is what I witnessed a few weeks ago in Sierra Leone. The issue of the food crisis is very complex, but the bottom line is that people around the world are hungry and having difficulty finding food. But because of World Hope International's friends and supporters sponsoring villages in Sierra Leone, I had the privilege of participating in the distribution of seed rice to families in several communities. These families received the seed rice with great joy, singing and praise to God. They now can plant rice and not only be able to feed their families but also grow enough to sell.

Finally, the obstacles remaining in Burma are enormous. The difficulty of working there has been trying but the lives saved make the challenge worthwhile. Almost nothing appears in the news, therefore we assume everything is fixed! But that is not the case. This is one of many recent reports we received from our partners that show the reality of what Burma still faces:

"I felt bad when I saw people take parentless children to work," said a Yangon woman, who said she saw two boys from the Irrawaddy delta as young as eight years old working in a teashop. One 9-year-old boy who lost his parents was begging near Rangoon's main train station and said, "I can't go back to my village anymore. There are no people who will give me food, and I do not know where my parents and brothers and sisters are." The boy said he was befriended by a 14-year-old boy who had also lost his parents during the storm and felt pity on him when he saw him crying near the train station.

Thank you for your continued support. We would like to expand our services in Cité-Soleil for more children, provide seed rice to more communities in Sierra Leone and additional assistance for the people of Burma. Click here to support this important work in the fight against global hunger!

"...from your bounty, O God, you provided for the poor." Psalm 68:10

Blessings,

Jo Anne Lyon
Founder & CEO