Buy one calendar, feed 26 children in Haiti
Calendars showcasing the work of Feed My Lambs Ministry in Haiti are being sold by volunteers for a second year.
The $15 raised by the sale of each calendar can feed 26 children who attend the charity’s school in Montrouis in western Haiti.
“We made them to raise money for the Academy Feeding Programme at the Feed My Lambs Ministry Academy in Haiti,” Marianne Herbert said.
“Many of the children do not eat for one or two days as their families are so poor and have no money for food.”
Ms Herbert, who co-ordinates fundraising in Bermuda for the feeding programme, added: “Each calendar sells for $15 and for each sale we can feed 26 of our schoolchildren.
“Many of them come from families who lost everything in Hurricane Matthew and this may well be the only food they are getting three times a week at our Academy.”
The calendars were put together by Maria Rego, wife of the charity’s founder Phillip Rego, and Ms Herbert, who wrote the captions for the photos. They are available at E.R. Aubreys on Front Street and the Gift Ship at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, as well as many other businesses, individuals and churches.
Volunteers will also be selling them outside Lindo’s Family Foods in Warwick today.
Matthew struck the impoverished nation as a Category 4 hurricane on October 4, leaving more than 800,000 in urgent need of food, according to international media reports.
The storm was a further blow to Haiti, which is still recovering from a deadly earthquake in 2010. Feed My Lambs Ministry runs an orphanage for more than 50 children, as well as a school and clinic for about 700 children. Volunteers also work with the community.
“We are very grateful to all those people who donated all the items and money to enable us to send emergency supplies to Haiti in the aftermath of the hurricane,” Ms Herbert said. And while relief efforts continue, the charity is not asking for further clothing donations, according to Ms Herbert.
She said they were inundated with items and have more than enough for another container to be sent.