Provide nutrition for 500 families in South Africa

Dear friends

Recently, a friend of ours posed the question: 

“What do you do when you are hungry?”

A very simple question.  Yet a thought provoking one when you compare it to the life of a person living in Missionvale.

For myself, the answer would be to look in the fridge and scratch in my cupboards.  If there wasn’t much (or even not much to my liking), I have the means to drive to a shop and purchase something.

Every day we are privileged enough to start our day without much thought for those cupboard doors opening and closing and how the contents ended up there. 

Our founder, Sr Ethel Normoyle, defines poverty as having no option in life.  In Missionvale, there is very little option on offer.  A simple question like:  “Would you like cereal or toast for breakfast?” is absolutely UNIMAGINABLE here. 

Every day I am absolutely overcome by the gratitude we see etched on the expressions from the people queuing for in line for hours to receive a half loaf of brown bread and a small cup of soup powder in return for some recyclable items. 

As I am typing this, I hear their beautiful African voices singing praise songs and I know many of them have their hands stretched out to the sky in deep gratitude to those who make their daily nutrition possible – YOU.  You are sincerely and gratefully remembered every day. 

Every contribution you send via Global Giving, is transformed into meeting a very basic, but crucial need – Nutrition.  But in doing so, you are also sending a message – someone cares.  It would be impossible for us to convey how much this message truly means to the people on the receiving end.  What we do know, is that it goes a long way to instilling a sense of dignity and pride in knowing that they still matter.  Thank you so, so much for that.

We wish you every blessing this festive season and into 2016.

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