Haiti Quake Relief

Award winning journalists, Mark Curnutte and Carrie Cochran, wrote a special section called Reaching Out to Haiti in the Sunday, March 21, 2010 edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer. Their sure to be award winning work captured the sights, sounds and surreal scenes of life in post earthquake Haiti.

Learn more about their experiences through their journalism and photographs with the articles listed below.

A small team of volunteers returned from a lengthy trip to various parts of Haiti to see first hand the destruction, the needs of the children and how YOU have made a life saving difference in the lives of many children. This team was able to serve Kids Against Hunger food that you provided through your donations or that you packed at the "Factory".

They report that the magnitude of the destruction is beyond what we can imagine. Although they expected to see a fleet of ships bringing food and supplies to the ports, there were only a few ships. Although they expected to see many cargo planes circling the airport to land, there were only a few planes.

Estimates say that it will take 1000 very large trucks, working 24 hours/day for 3 years to remove the broken concrete and twisted metal. Those trucks are not there. As such, one collapsed building after another remain as tombs for countless thousands of people.

Our team stored boxes of Kids Against Hunger food in a damaged school in a village which had not received any food or water supplies since the earthquake. The Haitian Government reports that 48% of the children in this region die from the effects of severe malnutrition. And this was before the earthquake. All over this small country, acute hunger is becoming more of a nightmare than ever before.

Although the press and the media have moved on to cover other stories, please know that the crisis continues. More children than before are starving and many are not even getting one meal each day. Countless children are going several days without any nourishing food or clean water.

Please share your treasures on behalf of these children. You can feed one child for one month with just a $10 donation. Or consider one box of KAH food for just $54 - that one box will feed 216 children a satisfying and nutritious meal. Click on DonateNow to use our fast, easy and secure online service.

Want to help with your time? Then please click on Volunteer Signup to attend one of our Saturday packing sessions. With just 2 hours of your time, you will produce enough high protein, vitamin rich food to feed one child for an entire year!