Vulnerable families will receive aid from the Zimbabwe Famine Relief project

The food crisis in Zimbabwe is growing worse each day; however, the first shipment of relief from SIM is currently held up in South Africa.

Implemented through the SIM Zimbabwe HOPE for AIDS team, everything is in place for the first food distribution through the SIM Zimbabwe Famine Relief project. Funds have been raised, local church volunteers have been trained, and the first bulk consignment of SEJO (Sorghum-based high nutrition porridge meal) has been waiting to be shipped from South Africa for two to three weeks.

"To date, permission to import this high energy meal has been withheld, even though this highly nutritional meal replacement is used extensively in South Africa and exported across the Southern Africa region." Tim Barrow, director for the Southern Africa Region reports. "We have appealed this decision and the product manufacturer is in direct consultation with Zimbabwe authorities."

The project distribution plan calls for five more bulk consignments to be exported over the next two to three months, as well as the distribution of seed, fertilizer and Bibles.

Pray

• for the successful importation of the nutritional porridge meal.
• for good food security as the product is dispersed to seven distribution centers in phase one.
• wisdom in the selection of famine relief beneficiaries when acute needs are widespread.
• that many would see Jesus as the true Bread of Life through this project.

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