Dear john, 

We’ve seen an incredible response to our email from earlier this week, and we wanted to make sure you saw it. In case you missed it, here’s the update: Our partner schools and hospitals in Haiti and Niger are awaiting emergency shipments of meals and medical aid in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, and we need your help to get these shipments out of our warehouses in Atlanta, Georgia, and Lynchburg, Virginia, and into the hands of those in need.

Will you help us meet our goal to raise $10,000 today to ensure these critical supplies reach those in need as quickly as possible? Please give now.

With gratitude,

Rise Against Hunger

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Dear john, 

In April, we shipped emergency meals and medical aid to partners in Sierra Leone and Liberia with the help of Hunger Champions like you. We’re hoping we can count on your support again: Will you sponsor shipments of critical COVID-19 relief supplies for hospitals and schools in Haiti and Niger?

Patients at Haiti’s New Hope Hospital, our longtime partner, are waiting to receive nutritious Rise Against Hunger meals and primary care medicine including antibiotics, first aid supplies and prenatal vitamins, as well as medical gloves and syringes. The shipment will also include an X-ray machine, a mammography unit and other medical equipment. The cost of this shipment is $18,000 — can you help ensure it reaches those in urgent need as quickly as possible? 

Children and patients in partner schools and hospitals in Niger, along the border with Chad and Nigeria, are awaiting our shipment of nutritious meals, primary care medicine including antibiotics, first aid supplies and prenatal vitamins, and backpacks and school supplies. In addition to the local population, this shipment will support refugees fleeing violence associated with Boko Haram. The cost of this shipment is $30,000. Will you join us as a sponsor and provide emergency relief now?

COVID-19 poses increasingly severe threats to vulnerable communities like those we serve in Haiti and Niger. The UN shares that in Haiti, COVID-19 “could become a humanitarian catastrophe” with 4 million Haitians in need of urgent food assistance. In Niger, the UN projects that 2.7 million people will face acute food insecurity in the coming months due to the global pandemic. These nutritious meals, medical aid and supplies will truly be life-changing for those who receive them.

Please donate now to put these shipments en route to those who need our help most during this critical time.