 CHF is BIG in Texas.
When Children's Hunger Fund (CHF) first began building relationships with individuals and churches in Texas, it wasn’t far from our thoughts that San Antonio would be a strategic location for a regional distribution center. 
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WHAT IS THE CHILDREN'S CHAMPION AWARD?
The Children's Champion award exists to recognize those who have used their positions of influence to ensure that children receive hope against the odds. |
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THE COMPASSION INSTITUTE
Summer is travel-time for Compassion Institute trainers. This August we will conduct trainings at the CHF Chicago offices and in San Jose, Costa Rica.
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CHF AND THE NATIVE PHILIPPINOS
The native people in The Philippines are called Aetas. As a hunting and gathering people, they move from place to place. This makes it difficult to give aid to them with any consistency. |
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MERCY NETWORK UGANDA
The eyes of the world are on Africa.
The continent is broiling with poverty, hunger, AIDS, and tyranny. Lawmakers, global aid workers, and celebrities worldwide are desperately seeking solutions that might help end the devastating cycle of poverty. |
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MERCY NETWORK PERU
Our Mercy Network in Peru launched just one year ago. 10 churches were trained and shortly after began distributing Food Paks to the homes of the needy in the villages and slums in and surrounding Lima. As we monitor their progress, we are encouraged by the effect this strategy is having on the families served.
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PROVISION IN DESPAIR
Pastor Miguel Garcia from Iglesia La Gran Comision, has been ministering in Mexicali for over 16 years now. He and his wife invest in the ministry out of their own pocket. With the way that our economy has been going lately it became very difficult for them to continue doing this. |
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EARTHQUAKE IN PERU
CHF Mercy Network Mobilizes in Peru
to Alleviate Quake Suffering |
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LATIN AMERICA UPDATE
Aura lives with her 7 children and her parents in a 3 room shack in Guatemala City's famed Zone 3 garbage dump. The front door opens into a room carpeted with junk salvaged from the dump. One room has a bed and a crib that she and her children share. Her parents share a bunk in the other room. Each day, Aura leaves her 2 month old baby with her youngest sons while she scours the dump for items that might take a price in the market.
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MERCY NETWORK LOS ANGELES
"I want to share with you that when I was delivering a Food Pak to one family last Friday, another woman came up and introduced herself to me. She asked if she could have some food too. She went on to explain that she and her two children had recently fled their home in another city following an incident of domestic violence with her husband. |
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CHICAGOLAND LAUNCH
The launching of CHF-Midwest.
this year recalls a verse from the prophet Zechariah: "Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin..." (Zech. 4:10).
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MAKING 4¢ FEED A CHILD
Just before the holidays, I had the opportunity to lead a team to Peru where I was reminded again of the incredible impact poverty has on children and families. Peru is not unique in this regard. Most anywhere you go in this world, it seems, you will find large pockets of children suffering from the effects of hunger and poverty. |
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LATIN AMERICA NEWS
One in every 4 people in Latin America survives on less than $2 per day!* That is clearly not enough money to live on, especially when you consider you may have spent that much on a cup of coffee today. It is these children that we strive to reach through our Latin America programs.
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STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
This year, a panel of graduate students from UCLA will be conducting a study to audit our statistics and reporting. They will follow our products through our Southern California Mercy Network distributions to the homes of needy families. |
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MENTORING THE MISSION
This is a common phrase we hear from ministry leaders after they complete CHF's Compassion Ministry Essentials Training. They don't seem to expect the in-depth, visionary training they receive when they first begin the process of joining CHF's Mercy Network. Though, once they have completed it, they are amazed at the growth and ministry-steering vision they achieve. |
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SHARING A SMALLER PIECE OF PIE
Guatemala City is much like any large city. It has a business district, industrial areas, suburbs and poor areas. Then, there are places that are so poor and crime ridden, you would never dare to enter. |
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AIDING REFUGEES
Darfur In Chicago
The humanitarian crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan is well known. With estimates of 400,000 people killed and 2.5 Million displaced, the situation has been tagged as one of the worst in history. |
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WALK WITH THE EGYPTIANS
Recently, CHF found a unique opportunity to help a large ministry serve the poor children in Egypt. We were invited to Cairo to visit the compassion programs of Kasr El Dobara. |
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LOS ANGELES MERCY NETWORK
Our L.A. Mercy Network sees home delivery of food as the prevailing strategy in helping the needy. |
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MIDWEST MERCY NETWORK
Our Midwest Distribution Center near Chicago reports a fruitful Food Pak program there. |
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CHANGE OF PLANS CHANGES LIVES
Earlier this year we shared our plans to send 5 truckloads of nutritious rice casserole to a ministry partner in Cairo, Egypt. |
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NEW NAME, EXPANDED VISION
An amazing thing has happened to Children's Hunger Fund Chicago.
When we first began developing a platform for ministry there, our vision was to establish a Mercy Network that would serve the needs of children throughout Chicago's inner-city areas. |
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TOY WRAP RADIO SPECIAL
Radio station KKLA (99.5 FM in Southern California) visited us at our Toy Wrap on December 1st, 2007. Click "more" to listen. |
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ARTICLE CITES CHF'S GOOD WORK
An article in World Magazine by the leader of Wall Watchers, an independent ministry watchdog organization, cites Children's Hunger Fund as an example of a charity that not only addresses the physical needs of poor children, but seeks to meet their spiritual needs as well. |
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JOY IN THE JUNGLE ~ A Mercy Network Serves The Talamanca Natives
Deep in the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica live the Bribri (BREE-bree), the original people of the Talamanca region. This indigenous tribe has lived in the mountainous jungles along the Caribbean coast for centuries and much of their ancient culture and traditions still survive. |
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A NEW WAY TO CARRY HOPE
When the weather in tropical Africa prevented the use of our traditional Food Pak®, CHF developed a more resilient and environmentally-friendly package for home food delivery. |
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A FRESH PLACE TO REST
CHF was able to provide fresh beds, mattresses and bedding for a group of orphanages in Ukraine. |
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AN UNUSUAL GROCERY STORE
How one church works to give dignity while providing for the needy. |
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MERCY IN MICHIGAN
New opportunities are opening to serve a large community of needy families throughout Michigan. |
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SERVING EL SALVADOR'S POOR
In the small country of El Salvador, 68% of the population lives in poverty. This sad situation provokes the exodus of approximately 720,000 people each year. |
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WELCOME TO HOLLYWOOD
A new Mercy Network church is launching in a unique area for compassion ministry: Hollywood. |
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CONFRONTING THE CRUNCH IN CAMBODIA
Have you been feeling the crunch of rising prices at the gas pump and the grocery store? If you answered "yes", most people around the world agree. The rising cost of items like gasoline, cooking oil, and food are having global effects. |
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GETTING INTO GUATEMALA
In Guatemala, over 22% of children under 5 suffer from malnutrition*. Over half of the population lives at or below the national poverty line**. That means that every other person we encounter in Guatemala is in need of some sort of help to meet his or her basic needs. |
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MICHIGAN MINISTRY MOUNTS
God is doing amazing things at CHF Midwest. We have been developing a relationship with Urban Family Ministries (UFM) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Nearly 12% of the population lives in poverty and our desire is to help them through the compassion of local churches. |
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ONE FOOD PAK BUILDS FIVE RELATIONSHIPS
As we climbed crumbling rock pathways among seemingly endless rows of aluminum and cardboard lean-to shacks, we were astounded by what we saw. Mile after mile of shanty homes were stacked one upon another. A spirit of hopelessness consumed us everywhere we looked. However, we knew the opportunity to see the hand of God at work lay ahead of us, and with that came hope. |
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HOPE IN THE HIMALAYAS
The Himalaya region is a 2,500-mile stretch of mountains that extend from Kashmir in the West to Myanmar in the East, and is one of the least accessible territories in the world. Providing for the physical and spiritual needs of the people in these areas is a significant challenge. In some parts of the country the poorest are without shelter, food or even warm clothes.
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A LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE
Even though prisoners have many personal and spiritual needs, one of their greatest concerns is the care of their families while they are incarcerated. The families of inmates often lack food, clothing and other basics. Chicago Prison Outreach (CPO) has pinpointed this need and is seeking to connect the families of inmates with local churches. |
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PROVISION AT THE PUMP
"It is a great help! We have been paying out of our own pockets, and sometimes we just do not have enough money." Miguel from Iglesia Misionera La Gran Comision was amazed by the gift of a gas card for his ministry. |
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NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS FOR LIBERIAN ORPHANS
In Liberia, West Africa, many people were forced to flee their homes and thousands of children were orphaned during two intense civil wars. |
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REACHING MORE CHILDREN IN SOCAL
Ventura County is a beautiful area of Southern California, a place of sun and surf. Yet it is also an area where gang presence and crime are well above California norms. Also, food insecurity is a frequent issue as workers often outnumber jobs, especially among the migrant worker population. |
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A GRAND OPENING IN CAMBODIA
Children’s Hunger Fund has worked together with Dr. Myron Wentz to fund the building of another Wentz Medical Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. |
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ARMENIAN VOLUNTEERS GET BUSY
The Armenian people consider themselves among the world’s earliest Christians and they attribute their survival as a distinct people to their faith. Their trust in God sustained them during long periods of foreign domination, and it enabled the Armenian people to preserve their culture and national identity. |
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"Serving children in need...across America and around the world."
To meet the thousands of needs that exist in the world today, Children's Hunger Fund utilizes an extensive network of generous ministries, companies and individuals who help transform children's lives from hunger to hope.
To download a copy of our 2007 Annual Report, CLICK HERE. 2.6MB
Thousands of compassionate families fill Food Paks with nutritional food, which are delivered directly into the homes of families they have never met. Trained ministry partners pick up food from our warehouse and operate distribution centers, feeding nearly 30,000 people every week! Faithful volunteers package and prepare food, or wrap the thousands of toys given to children during the holiday season. Generous donors with a heart to feed and clothe the hungry write monthly checks, enabling our efforts to continue around the clock. Caring corporations give truckloads of quality products to those who could, otherwise, never afford them. In countries around the world, CHF builds strong relationships with indigenous leaders who have a passion for their own people, and provide food and other aid to support their ministries.
Since 1991, Children's Hunger Fund has distributed more than $500 million in aid, bringing hope to children in more than 70 countries worldwide.
It has been said that a person can live forty days without food, four days without water, four minutes without air, but only four seconds without hope. Hope restores faith to a life that has been robbed of dignity. Hope replaces a past of hunger, brokenness, and despair with a bright future of opportunity.
It is hope that CHF seeks to restore.
Children's Hunger Fund is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization.
To download a copy of our 2007 Annual Report, CLICK HERE. 5MB
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