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Our Mission: To walk with churches, leaders and families in overcoming all forms of human poverty by living in healthy relationship with God and His creation.
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For the community of El Ojoche, the five months of the dry season historically represented scarcity, malnutrition and even death. Starved of rain, the fertile soil of the rolling hills of northwest Nicaragua ceased to yield a harvest. In order to survive, the 87 families of this small village relied on rationed corn and beans grown during the rainy season.
Ivania Rios, Food for the Hungry’s Community Health Evangelism program leader explains, “Rising food prices in the local market compounded the problem, making even needed food unaffordable.”
One At A Time
As I walked through the doorway of a newly built adobe home that stands on the side of rubble-filled dirt roads in Chincha, Peru, I came face to face with two simple women who have experienced radical hope in the midst of a horrible tragedy.
Marisol Ochoa Omeda and Carmen Quispe live in the community of Salto De Liza in Chincha. One evening in August of last year, a big earthquake rocked this community and killed more than 600 people, mostly school children attending class when the roof collapsed on them.
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