Currently(2008) the food crisis in Haiti has caused the Haiti Hot Lunch Project to be able to feed fewer children than in the past.   Haiti Hot Lunch program has been reduced from 230 schools and 20,000 children to the current 55 schools and 8,000 children in the past few years.   Fifteen years ago buying food and giving these children one hot meal a day was the answer to the malnutrition threatening the lives of so many.  Today, because the cost of living in Haiti has increased so dramatically, the monies available just won’t do what so many had hoped.  The cost of food has almost doubled just in the past year alone.

Bill Dawson, the Field Strategy Coordinator in Haiti, when talking about the increase in costs of food over the past year, says “of course this means now we are not able to feed the same number of kids per day for the dollars we had in the HHL program”.

This inflation now threatens to make the situation even worse than 15 years ago. Dawson states. “We will either have to make some adjustments pretty soon or hope that people will respond to the need and more people will participate.  There is not an end in sight.  So we need to pray and put this before our people”.

Help us give all children of our Nazarene schools in Haiti at least one hot meal daily.  Ask God to lead you in your to response to this need, then obey His leading. 

The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance. 1 Corinthians 12:25-26 (The Message)