“Stop Hunger Now” Food Packaging with Jimmy Fortune Saturday, March 9, 2013 1pm - 3pm

1. “Stop Hunger Now” Food Packaging with Jimmy Fortune Saturday, March 9, 2013 1pm - 3pm Goal - 10,000 meals - $2,500.00 Jimmy Fortune Concert Saturday, March 9, 2013 7pm Tickets - $15.00 Belmont Baptist Church 830 Monticello Avenue Charlottesville, Va. 2002 Out of the 868 million who are hungry, more than 852 million of them live in developing countries. Source:FAO 2012 Executive Summary 60% of the 10.9 million child deaths in developing countries are related to hunger and/or malnutrition.Source:World Food Programme, 2009. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision of a world without hunger and a mission to end hunger in our lifetime by providing food and life-saving aid to the world's most vulnerable and by creating a global commitment to mobilize the necessary resources.Stop Hunger Now’s meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used primarily to support development programs and to save lives in developing countries around the world.In its efforts to respond to emergency needs around the world Stop Hunger Now receives and distributes significant donations of in-kind aid. These donations are large quantities of food, medicines, medical supplies and other such items as may be of use in fighting hunger and providing relief in a crisis.In partnership with Belmont Baptist Church and Stop Hunger Now, Belmont has slated package 10,000 meals. Each meal costs $.25. We needYOUto meet this goal. Please sign up to help package. 1 out of 4 children – around 146 million - in developing countries are malnourished. Source:World Food Programme. 25,000 people (adults and children) die every day from hunger and related causes.Source: FAO, 2009. , Poverty.com More than 60 percent of chronically hungry people are women. Source:World Food Programme, 2009. 1 in 7 people in the world will go to bed hungry tonight. Source:World Food Programme, 2009.