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LIFE's Mission Outreach is Saving Lives in
Southern Africa Where Millions Face Starvation
While famine and critical food shortages across southern Africa could lead to the starvation deaths of millions, LIFE Outreach International's Fall Mission Feeding emphasis has taken on an even more urgent appeal for malnourished children in Malawi.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS -- While famine and critical food shortages across southern Africa could lead to the starvation deaths of millions, LIFE Outreach International's Fall Mission Feeding emphasis has taken on an even more urgent appeal for malnourished children in Malawi.
LIFE, founded by Rev. James Robison, is feeding well over 200,000 children monthly in Angola, Mozambique and southern Sudan. The ministry is now appealing for help to bring food to Malwai, a southeastern African nation, where millions could eventually starve if action is not taken soon.
The immediate goal is to deliver more than four million meals and other relief to Malawi.
Malawi borders Mozambique, where LIFE has maintained one of its strongest mission feeding efforts in Africa. Some 70 percent of the Malawi population faces a severe food shortage.
Poor harvests due to periods of droughts then floods, mismanagement of surplus grain, hopeless economic conditions, and the HIV epidemic have taken their toll. Currently, in Malawi:
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- Many people have died from eating poisonous wild grasses and roots in their desperate attempt to find food.
- More than 4,000 have died in a cholera outbreak.
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LIFE's mission partners are standing by ready to rush life-saving food to the greatest areas of need.
"Through our Mission Feeding program and relief efforts in neighboring Mozambique, we have the ability and the manpower in place to save thousands of lives," James Robison said. "Don't ever think that one person can't make a difference."
LIFE's mission partner in Africa, Peter Pretorius voiced concern that without international relief, famines could sweep southern Africa similar to the Ethiopian crises in the 1980s.
"I really fear that we are going to see things that we have not seen yet in Africa. Not even in the starvation in Ethiopia or the shortages from floods in Angola or any of the disasters which ave occurred before," he said.
"Some of the things we have seen are as bad as what we saw in Mozambique and Angola during the height of the famine there," he said.
To find out more about LIFE's Mission Feeding program and other mission projects in nearly 40 countries, please go to www.lifetoday.org.
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