How You Can Help

We believe that it will take the effort of all, working together to make a difference. That’s why Hunger Response International partners with individuals, community groups and businesses to help feed people locally and globally.

Feed People Locally…in your neighbourhood:

During the Rice Raiser Campaign, store purchased packages of rice can be donated through any participating school, community group, church, business or dropped off at your community Food Bank. Other food items such as canned food can also be donated.

Feed People Globally…in your world:

Select one project or give a little to each to help feed people in four different countries. Hunger Response International is a registered Canadian charitable organization and will receipt all donations of $10.00 and over.Be assured that 100% of your gifts and donations will be distributed to the project you designate. Please also consider supporting this work by spreading the word, by volunteering, by business sponsorship, or by tax-deductible donation to Hunger Response International.

Food for Orphans in Ukraine

The Prazovje Orphanage started in 2002 in the Dniproptrovsk state of Ukraine with 25 children. Up to this year it has been home to 36 boys and girls and they have been informed by the state that they will be receiving an additional 14 children. About one half of the children have been abandoned by their parents or have been removed from their homes by the the government; the others are true orphans. Children range in ages from 3 years to 18 years.

Food in the Ukraine is very expensive. This past summer brought drought and most people had little or nothing to harvest. The cost of food at the market has risen due to supply shortages and political instability. Partnering with Hungry for Life International, the Rice Raiser wants to ensure that the children of this privately run orphanage have enough food to eat.

  • $25.00 will feed a child for one month / $30.00 will feed a child for one year.

Growing Food and Growing Hope in Kenya

Villagers in Kasule, Nyanza Province, West Kenya, live on roughly $1.00 per day (extreme poverty). 23% of the people in the village struggle with HIV/AIDS. This area also suffers from frequent drought and flooding during the rainy season. The soil has a lot of clay in it and therefore has poor nutrient content. Most of the food that is grown is consumed by the household leaving little or none to sell at the local market. Partnering with Hungry For Life International, we will introduce modern farming techniques and the use of certified seeds that will withstand the extreme weather conditions through the expertise of a local agronomist. The villagers will also be provided with some basic tools and fertilizer.

$75 will supply one household with:

  • 5 kg. of specialized Maize Seed
  • 50 kg. of fertilizer
  • 2 hoes and 1 axe
  • training from an Agronomist

Nutrition for Children in Sierra Leone

Currently in Sierra Leone, West Africa, only 41% of children are able to attend primary school. This means that the average child will grow up illiterate and unable to benefit from the opportunities that education provides. Providing a meal through the school encourages children to attend and helps provide the needed nourishment for them to learn, play and dream. Partnering with CAUSE Canada, we hope to provide meals to a school of 300 students and help them establish a School Garden where students will learn math and science as they learn how to grow food. In addition, the Canadian International Development Agency will match all funds donated at a rate of $3 – $1 for funds raised towards a project for parents that involves micro loans and agricultural training.

  • $65 provides lunches and snacks for the entire school for a week.
  • $250 will provide lunches and snacks for an entire month for the school.
  • $12 provides one bag of seed fro a garden — each garden needs ten bags of seed; lettuce, maize, okra, pepper, potato;, onions, cabbage, carrot, beans
  • $200 provides enough seeds and fertilizer for an entire school garden
  • $400 provides seeds, fertilizer and all the tools needed to establish a school garden: hoes, shovels, spades, wheelbarrows, rakes, watering cans

Training for Parents

  • $135 allows a parent to go through a six month training program
  • $50 provides a parent with a business loan that will increase their income and ability to grow or purchase nutritious food.

The Monga Project – Bangladesh

Bangladesh — Assist rice harvest workers during the ‘Monga’ season when there is no work available. (3000 families)

Monga, a local term, means ‘near famine situation’ which occurs every year during the Aman rice crop season in the northern districts in Bangladesh. The northwestern region of Bangladesh is the poorest part of the country as well as the most seriously affected monga area. During this rice planting and harvesting season, demand for labour is usually very high. For harvesting, the daily workers usually get a certain quantity of rice along with some small daily wages. After the Aman season, most of the people have some rice to eat for a while, unless it has been used for paying off debts.Millions of people in northern districts of Bangladesh depend totally on agriculture and the landless poor usually sell their labour in advance to survive during the monga period. During this period they survive on one or a half a meal/day unusually on food like millet, arum stem, leaves, or leaves of black gram.These workers have very small or no agricultural land holdings, so their homestead would be the place where something is to be done. Livestock (poultry rearing, calf fattening, goat rearing, milking cows, rabbit rearing) and fishery (if possible) are the main farming activities that have traditionally taken place in the homesteads. The current project will address the technical assistance and capital for undertaking those homestead-based activities where all the family members, including women, will participate.
Partnering with Mennonite Central Committee and implemented through the Canadian Food Grains Bank, we want to help three thousand families affected by monga in Nilphamari district of Bangladesh by helping them attain food security by participating in new, sustainable agricultural activities. The Canadian International Development Agency will match every dollar raised for this project by $4 – $1!

Food sustainability and micro enterprise:

  • $1 buys vegetable seeds for 7 families — these vegetables will be ready to eat during Monga season.
  • $10 buys two fruit trees for 10 families — the fruit will ripen and be ready to eat during Monga season.
  • $57 buys a calf with matching money from a family who has sold a goat. — income generation for one family to purchase food during the monga season. The calf will be fattened fro 4 months and sold at a profit fro $43 for the family to use to purchase food

Please choose which project you would like to support and make your cheque payable to Hunger Response International and mail it to The Rice Raiser, PO Box 2514, Abbotsford, B.C. V2T 6R3. Thank you for helping change hunger for the people who live in these parts of the world.

h4 Partners of the Rice Raiser
Hungry For Life International www.hungryforlife.org
Mennonite Central Committee www.mcc.org
Cause Canada www.causecanada.org

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Your donation

100% of your donation will go to the organization whose project you wish to support. You will receive your tax receipt in the mail for all donations of $10.00 and more.

Donations to support the development of Hunger Response International:

Since we send 100% of all designated donations to the projects, Hunger Response International needs to raise funds separately to cover our overhead costs of operations. Your help is greatly appreciated to enable us to continue to grow and develop the Rice Raiser Campaign. Thank you for your support. You can mail your cheque to The Rice Raiser, P.O. Box 2514, Abbotsford, BC V2T 6R3.