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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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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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Frito Lay
Frito Lay is one of CHF’s most consistent donors and has contributed vast quantities of their signature chips along with Mother’s Brand cookies. Frito Lay calls upon CHF several times a month to pick up products that have been targeted for donation from two local facilities in Southern California. |
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Gillette
For several years, Gillette's generous and consistent contributions have enabled us to provide children and low-income families around the world with toothbrushes, hair care products, lotions, and other hygiene items for use in our Gift Pak Program. |
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Bloomfield Bakers
Bloomfield Bakers contributes frequent donations of highly nutritional, shelf stable products that greatly enhance the nutritional content of CHF’s Food Pak Program. |
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Mission Foods
Mission Foods provides a generous supply of corn, flour tortillas, and chips, which are always welcome for immediate use by the families we serve. |
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Office Depot
Month after month, Office Depot provides major electronic devices from computers to copiers. These office products help our partnering agencies to work more efficiently as they serve the poor. The office supplies provided by Office Depot help these same agencies save on their day-to-day expenditures. |
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Pepsi Bottling Company
Pepsi gives truckloads of soft drinks, bottled water and energy drinks. Their products are great for the many events that CHF sponsors which brings joy to families whose budget is limited. |
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Perseco Worldwide
Over the years, Perseco has been our largest provider of toys for CHF's Holiday Toy Project. |
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Rite Aid
Rite Aid has been a loyal giver of unopened returns and seasonal products. Their diversity of items has helped in providing families with products from detergents to Christmas gifts and feminine hygiene to over-the-counter medicines. |
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Royal Paper Box
Royal Paper Box provides us with monthly financial support to assist our general operating budget. RPB also donates all of the boxes used in our Gift Pak and School Pak programs. |
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Gamesa USA
Gamesa has provided CHF with multiple truckloads of pasta and cookies. Gamesa USA has contributed to CHF from various facilities across the US including Texas and California. |
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Smart & Final
Smart & Final provides CHF with occasional donations of bulk food preparation supplies. |
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Target
CHF Receives Target Community Leadership Grant!
We are pleased to announce that CHF has been awarded a $15,000 Community Leadership Grant by the Target Corporation. The grant is to be used to help underwrite the operating costs of CHF’s Volunteer Workday Programs. We are very grateful for Target’s ongoing support of CHF’s efforts to meet the needs of children through their financial support and the participation of Target team members at our annual Toy Wrap Christmas Celebration. Thank you Target! |
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Trader Joes
Trader Joe’s is the most significant supplier of high-quality foods to CHF’s weekly food distributions. |
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Ty Inc.
Ty Inc. is the premier plush toy company in the world and has shared those plush toys by the millions with CHF. |
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USANA
Our relationship with USANA has enabled us to provide several thousand children with daily nutritional supplements. Many of these children have endured health issues due to malnutrition and other ailments. We have experienced incredible health improvements among these children as a result. USANA is also major financial contributor to CHF, enabling us to reach thousands of children and families each year through our Food Pak program. |
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Dole
Dole contributes to CHF on a monthly basis from their local warehouse. Dole Foods contributions are always high-quality and highly nutritional. Donations include fresh fruit, vegetables and they even provided the flowers for our 2004 Celebration Banquet. |
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Del Monte
Del Monte provides nutritional donations of pineapples and bananas from two Southern California facilities. |
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Guideposts Publishing
Guideposts Publishing not only contributes inspirational printed materials but another key product is their Knit for Kids program. |
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Juanita's Foods
Juanita’s Foods regularly contributes assorted foods that are ideally suited for Hispanic families in need. Juanita’s is a leading Hispanic Foods supplier and their products are just what CHF needs when reaching out to our Latin American recipients. |
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Ready-Pac
Ready Pac Produce supplies CHF with a weekly array of fresh fruits, vegetables and ready to mix salad ensembles. |
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Big Lots!
Big Lots has provided CHF with large quantities of assorted items including truckloads of food items, storage containers and household goods. |
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