Thank you so much for visiting my personal fundraising page! We really can make a difference and every single dollar matters!

When hearing about this tragic famine in the Horn of Africa, I think about how I would feel if it were my babies who were starving- Lily and Quinn - and how I just can't imagine the horror of watching my precious girls go hungry. I don't want to be one of those people on the sidelines anymore. 30,000 children have died from starvation in the last 90 days. How in the world are we, am I, letting this happen?

Thankfully, there is something we can do to help. World Help, is on the job and putting together containers of food and medical supplies to ship to help people affected by this catastrophe. We can help by donating money to ship those containers here. The president of World Help, Vernon Brewer, is an amazing man who I've met personally multiple times and is a great friend of my dad's. He recently visited a refugee camp and said this rivals any humanitarian crisis he's ever seen. Coming from a man who has traveled to just about every desperate place on earth, that really means something.

I know that any money donated to this group will be used wisely and will truly make an impact on this tragic situation. Chris and I feel so strongly about the need to help in the only way we can, by giving money, that we're donating the most money we've ever donated at one time, even at a time when our income is low and our expenses are high. But we know we are doing the right thing because the money we are donating will literally save lives. That is worth a few dinners at home rather than eating out ... at least we have food to eat. I'd rather feed 160 people than buy a $4 cup of coffee anyway!

Any amount will help - $1 donated provides 40 meals to starving people! Each container of food costs $6000 to ship and contains 240,000 meals! Holy moly! Talk about bang for your buck!

If we take action, we can make a difference to that child who gets his first real meal in weeks. We can save a mother from the horror of watching her child die. We can help. So please, from the bottom of my heart, please help by donating here. Thank you so much for hearing my heart and for caring about these precious lives!

Crisis in the Horn of Africa!

More than 30,000 children, under the age of five, have perished in the last 90 days in southern Somalia alone.

Twelve million Somalis, Kenyans, and Ethiopians are starving due to the worst drought since the 1950s.

The U.N. reports that 600,000 children are on the brink of starvation, with little or no relief in sight. Even the most modest of estimates say that thousands will die in the coming months if conditions remain the same.

We are used to seeing television images of distressed children in need of help. It’s easy to become hardened because of the sheer magnitude of these realities. Even so, we must guard our hearts from accepting this dismal fate for the Somali people, those we are commanded to love and cherish as our neighbors and friends.

We must choose to wage battle on our collective tendency to be paralyzed by indifference, ignorance, and even the best of intentions.

Will you join us in committing to pray for the Somali people and to raise awareness of their needs? We are also asking you to give toward the cost of shipping containers of humanitarian aid to a neighboring area in Kenya, where thousands of refugees are seeking sanctuary.

Each 40-foot container costs approximately $6,000 to ship and contains 40,000 pounds of wheat, corn, nutrition-packed soup mix, and much more that can supply 240,000 life-saving meals. Think of the impact:

$1 = 40 meals
$50 = 2,000 meals
$250 = 10,000 meals
$1,000 = 40,000 meals
$6,000 = 240,000 meals

We must be bold and stand up for those without a voice.

Today, we can make a difference in the face of one of the most devastating humanitarian disasters of our time. Act now by giving to our campaign, start your own campaign, or just share with your social networks and friends.

Our goal is to provide 20 containers of food to the Horn of Africa, providing 4.8 million meals to those in desperate need! We only need $120,000 to make this a reality.

Whatever you do, join us by responding today!
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To read more about the Horn of Africa Crisis visit blog.worldhelp.net

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