Feeding Orphans

Ref: Letter of Appeal For Feeding Orphan and Victimized Children

Dear BROTHER AND SISTER WHO LOVE THE LORD:

Holy greeting in Jesus name. The above named ministry is a registered and incorporated church, located in Liberia. With a vision of feeding and educating the orphan and victimized children. Since the fifteen year civil war in Liberia many of the children were victimized. So we as church deem it necessary to come with this Children Feeding Project. We write to you so that you will please help our church to continue the Children Feeding Project. This is our church website www.christresurrectionchurch.com you will see all about us. The orphan, pictures, and victimized children receiving food. The women are cooking for them. You will see few copies of our church Article of Incorporation. Please help in Liberia and make a child smile again.

We will gladly appreciate your donations and gift as it will be considered a great contribution toward Liberia ’s children who came from facing war and also it will be a great help to Liberia and Africa as well.

In His Service,

Winston Geford

SECRETARY GENERAL

Approved:________________________________

Pst. Blaty Williams

A PROPOSAL ON ORPHAN FEEDING PROGRAM

SUMMARY

Christ Resurrection Ministry has an evangelistic and humanitarian burden. For sometime now, this ministry had been working to feed the orphans and victimized children. As part of our humanitarian mandate in this commission presently there are 15 orphans and 10 victimized children that are desperately in need to be fed two times daily with rice and soup. Because the church does not have an orphanage home for now, we cook the food and the children come and eat and go to the people whom they are living with for now. These children are living with people who found them during the heat of the war in Liberia. For now the church does not have an orphanage home to keep the children.

PROBLEM STATEMENT

The history of orphans and victimized children has largely been centered around the civil catastrophe that lasted for fifteen years. As a result of acute sorrow, deep sadness, suffering, pain and anguish, triggered through traumatic events and experiences, in which many children were abused, tortured, and beaten while some witnessed the killing of their parents as well of the burning of their homes/properties in broad daylight. These children were forcibly thrown into the circle of sexual abuse/rape, by armed men according to their testimonies. Something they did not want, and not ask for, neither expected.

NEED AND RATIONALE

In the course of the fifteen year civil war, most of these innocent children were captured by armed men from various factions and taken to villages involuntarily; now that the war is over, and armed men are disarmed, and nation, Liberia is gradually recovering. Most of the children are set free and many of them are in search for their parents, food, clothing and shelter. Some of them are traumatized, emotionally cripple, sick and internally displaced. Well as trauma healing and counseling takes place in the lives of the children, they are transformed spiritually in need of shelter, (orphanage home) food, drugs, clothing and education because they lack support and good care. Sometimes that could easily trigger psychological disturbances and trauma.

PROBLEM ANALYSIS

Considering the deplorable conditions of these orphan and victimized children in a nation that had just returned from fifteen years of brutal civil war and the psychological imbalances caused them as a result of the war, it is very necessary to provide the best medicine that will help them climb out of their psychological disturbances and traumatic stress, and making them to feel, think, and to live like other children of integrity in the society. By supporting the orphan and victimized children feeding program, we can feed the children two times a day. In this light, we can feed the children like this: For the feeding of twenty five children, we cook two times a day – fifteen cups of rice with soup in the morning to 12:00 P.M. Food is a ready then from 2:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M. the next meal is ready. They will not eat again until the next day we begin.

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During the two times we cook for the children, each section we cook fifteen cups of rice and US$10.00 for soup. For the whole day, we cook 30 cups of rice and use US$20.00 for soup. Everyday for the two times we cook daily, one bag of rice is consumed in four days. And seven bag of rice is consumed in one month. In Liberia the cost of a bag of rice is US$23.00 x seven bags is US$160.00 (ONE HUNDRED SIXTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS). For soup, US$20.00 is used daily for the two times we cook for the children. For one month soup, we consumed US$560.00 (FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS). For monthly charcoal, we used US$80.00 and three women who do the cooking for the children received US$20.00 each month. With the continuation of the feeding program, we believed that many of these children will be catapulted out of their situations.

GOALS

To help orphans and victimized children by feeding them two times daily with rice and soup which is the Liberia’s stable food.

OBJECTIVE

To restore the integrity and hope of hopeless orphans and victimized children in Liberia by making them forget the past and consider the great future through our support and to making them smile again.

BENEFICIARIES

Fifteen orphans which include ten victimized children who have not seen their parents since the war. Even though there are many kids in this situation.

NOTE

Total cash needed monthly to facilitate orphans and victimized children feeding program is US$861.00 (EIGHT HUNDRED SIXTY ONE UNITED STATES DOLLARS) monthly.

Rice - US$161.00 Monthly

Soup 560.00

Char Coal 80.00

Women 20.00 each for cooking.

Ø Monthly report will be sent to you and expenditure of the month.

Ø We intend to continue feeding the children with your approval and subsequent provision for our appeal.

We will gladly appreciate your donations and gifts as it will be considered and gifts as it will be considered a great contribution toward Liberian children who came from war. And also a great help to Africa at large.

BUDGET

AMOUNT	DESCRIPTION
US$23.00	1 Bag of rice ( 7 bags is used for 1 month)
20.00	Is used 1 day for soup (US$560.00 is used for 1 month soup
80.00	Is used for char coal
20.00	Is used for payment of three women each for cooking of the children’s food.