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Feed My Starving Children

The Amazing Grace has the capacity, utilizing some of her cargo space, to establish numerous warehouses to extend the ministry that UCT has been working on over the last few years.

United Caribbean Trust is partnering with Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) which is a non-profit Christian organization committed to feeding God’s starving children hungry in body and spirit.

The approach is simple: volunteers of all ages hand-pack meals designed specially for starving children, and FMSC ships the meals to more than 50 countries around the world.

Right now over 140,000 meals have been donated to assist with the child feeding programme in Jacmel Haiti. It has been estimated that it will cost US $6000 to transport the food to Haiti.

However UCT is aware that to transport containers into Suriname and Guyana would be a very costly exercise. We are burdened to establish a similar programme in Guyana, growing rice, cassava, soya and vegetables. Recently following a meeting with the project coordinator with the Minister of Agriculture in Guyana we are confident that this is the place to establish a UCT equivalent of Feed My Starving Children.

Establishing a solar drying factory to prepare the food in preparation for the arrival of the Amazing Grace which is the missing link to this vision. She could not only provide the transportation needs but the facility to establish a packing warehouse. As the youth are transported across the region they would be recruited to assist with the packing of the food packages.

Pallets of prepared dried food could be stockpiled in preparation for the hurricane season. If not utilized by October the food supplies would be distributed to the child feeding programmes in Haiti, Honduras, Dominica, Suriname and into the interior of Guyana. What a wonderful Christmas present from the Caribbean.

As the Amazing Grace docks in the islands school children could be recruited to visit the vessel to learn about the children programmes and get involved in the packing process.

Information sourced from www.fmsc.org

About the food

From its beginnings, Feed My Starving Children has worked to develop a food mixture that would be easy and safe to transport, simple to make with only boiling water, and culturally acceptable worldwide.

FMSC developed a formula consisting of:

• Rice, the most widely accepted grain around the world.
• Extruded soy nuggets, providing maximum protein at lowest cost.
• Vitamins, minerals and a vegetarian chicken flavoring to give growing children the critical nutritional elements they need.
• Dehydrated vegetables for flavor and nutrition.