Hunger Update 6/27/25

We are at the end of the month, always a hard time for our friends in Ghana. They

struggle at the best of times and often go hungry when we are unable to help. This

is a sad fact of life for many people in many places, but for us this is not an

abstraction. We are friends with real, specific people who are suffering there and

it is especially hard to see.

Many of the people in our small group have little children and it is agonizing to

know that they are going without food. Vicky, Melbourne, Donald, and Twinabu are

all under two years of age. Adom, Belinda's baby, is nine months old. We help

other children who are a bit older, too, and when we have the funds, we help adults

(grownups get sick and hungry too). But it is unacceptable to let children suffer.

So our special effort is always to help them first.

Our little flock has been scattered by circumstances and by their attempts to do

whatever they can to take care of themselves and their children. For a time, little

Donald was completely abandoned by his mother, but she did finally return and so he

is not completely alone. The others have at least one parent to keep an eye on them

(except Anabel, though for how she is okay) but that doesn't do a lot of good when

the adults themselves are going hungry.

There is no way to talk about these things without creating the impression that we

are asking for funds or are, at a minimum, looking for sympathy, but this is a

simple statement of the situation in Ghana for our friends there. We are doing what

we can but the days are hard and everyone is suffering. We are hoping everyone can

hold on until the new cycle of funding begins in July.