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Operation Blessing food distribution efforts are
already underway in Niger.
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Contributed by Bill Horan, President, Operation
Blessing International
Niger Africa is one of the hottest places on earth.
It’s a parched and dry landlocked country about
twice the size of Texas. Over 11 million people live
there, most eking out survival by growing what they eat.
The rainy season in Niger is short and
happens mostly during August. Last August, it hardly
rained at all, and most of the crops—of peas, grains, sorghum
and peanuts—withered and died.
If that wasn’t
bad enough, for the next several months clouds of hungry
locusts turned the blue skies black, swarmed over the
land, devoured most of the remaining crops and chewed
up the grasses needed to feed livestock.
Can you even imagine what it might be
like to live in Niger today? Hunger pains blotting out
all other sensations, your children hungry and crying,
no credit card, no ATM, no grocery store, and no cell
phone to call 911—just
heat and hunger… and death.
Operation Blessing is partnering with Humedica and the
World Food Program to provide emergency feeding programs
for approximately 78,000 people living in 64 remote villages.
During the next several weeks our partnership will deliver
and distribute 1,164 tons of food and save thousands
of lives. With your help we can do even more. Please
make an online donation today.
100 cents out of
every dollar donated for this cause goes directly to
providing food for those caught in the grips of the
famine. Many people would help fight the famine in
Niger if they knew how… now, you know
how. Please help.
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