“Stop Hunger Now”
Food Packaging with Jimmy Fortune
Saturday, March 9, 2013
1pm - 3pm
Goal - 10,000 meals - $2,500.00
Out of the 868 million who
are hungry, more than 852
million of them live in
developing countries.
Source: FAO 2012 Executive
Summary
60% of the 10.9 million child
deaths in developing countries are
related to hunger and/or
malnutrition.
Source: World Food Programme,
2009.
1 out of 4 children – around 146
million - in developing countries
are malnourished.
Source: World Food Programme.
25,000 people (adults and children)
die every day from hunger and
related causes.
Source: FAO, 2009. , Poverty.com
Jimmy Fortune Concert
Saturday, March 9, 2013
7pm
Tickets - $15.00
Belmont Baptist Church
830 Monticello Avenue
Charlottesville, Va. 2002
1 in 7 people in the world will go to
bed hungry tonight.
Source: World Food Programme,
2009.
More than 60 percent of
chronically hungry people are
women.
Source: World Food Programme,
2009.
Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food
and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision of a world without
hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-saving aid to the world's
most vulnerable and by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources.
Stop Hunger Now’s meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated,
high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used primarily to support development programs and
to save lives in developing countries around the world.
In its efforts to respond to emergency needs around the world Stop Hunger Now receives and distributes
significant donations of in-kind aid. These donations are large quantities of food, medicines, medical
supplies and other such items as may be of use in fighting hunger and providing relief in a crisis.
In partnership with Belmont Baptist Church and Stop Hunger Now, Belmont has slated package 10,000
meals. Each meal costs $.25. We need YOU to meet this goal. Please sign up to help package.