You will agree with us, that it’s not too early to start thinking about Christmas gifts. And, there is no better way to honor special people than by giving meaningful Christmas gifts in their names. Think of giving CMA’s Christmas gifts that will make a lasting change; your gift, could actually be someone else’s life line.  Through our various ways of partnership, we afford opportunity for you to choose love gifts making lasting change. For example, you could give a food bucket on behalf of a loved one, for only US$ 35. The food buckets will benefit children like Benedict who live in drought prone areas in Kenya.

When we met ten year old Benedict Mutua, he looked much smaller for his age. Constant hunger and hardship at home in one of Kenya's worst hit drought area has stunted his growth.
For him Christmas day may be one of those days when hunger makes him too weak to play.  Your gift can make that change.
 
Over 10 million people in Kenya face starvation; resultant deaths and high malnutrition rates have been reported. Christian Mission Aid has responded to the crisis

‘Every six seconds a child dies of hunger-related complications.’

CMA joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Food day, recognizing an immediate need for increased access to food in many countries.

According to the World Food Programme (WFP), the number of people globally suffering from hunger has reached a record high this year surpassing more than 1 billion. Meanwhile, the amount of available food aid has dropped to its lowest number in two decades. According to the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the vast majority of the world’s hungry live in developing countries.

To meet on going challenges, CMA continues to implement much-needed projects that provide emergency and development relief to communities. CMA runs feeding programs in two slums in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi that feed close to 200 children with one meal each day. For many of these children, this is the only decent meal they have each day.

At the end of every year, CMA conducts a Christmas food bucket campaign to help bring a little season’s cheer to many slum families in dire need of food. These food drives help feed a family for at least two weeks. So far, 750 buckets have been pledged against a target of 2000.

In South Sudan, CMA has been carrying out malnutrition interventions in some of its areas of operations. We provide nutritional care to malunourished children and their caregivers. Our Sustainable Peace and Enhancing Livelihoods project ensures that in addition the peace and reconciliation initiatives within the region, livelihoods become more resilient. To this end, communities are equipped with farming skills that go a long way in improving their food security. To date a variety of crops grown have shown remarkable success in the Juaibor area for example that were hitherto grown.  These include cowpeas, butternut, kales and corn.

World Food Day was created to raise awareness about global food scarcity, motivating communities to get involved in the fight against world hunger.

A warm, late summer day…..30 hikers…..one cause.
That was the mix on Saturday, September 19th when hikers came together in Lethbridge, Alberta for the first annual Hike for Hope.

The hikers had all gathered sponsorship for themselves to raise money for Christian Mission Aid’s “Units of Hope” initiative in Nyanza Province, Kenya.  The program, part of CMA’s  larger CLEAR or Community Leaders Educated AIDS Response project, builds 2 room homes with rain water catchment system and pit latrines for the most desperate of AIDS widows and their children.  The homes give the families hope for a secure future.