You Can Keep a Christian Family Alive for the Cost of One Bread Roll a Day

September 11, 2020

Will you partner with Barnabas Aid to feed poor and persecuted African Christians? Just 30 cents a day will keep a family alive.

What can you buy for 30 cents? A bread roll? A large onion?

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This Nigerian child’s father was killed by militants. His mother wept for joy to receive food from Barnabas in the midst of Covid lockdown.

Ground maize (often called “mielie meal”) is the staple food for most of sub-Saharan Africa. A 50-lb. sack, typically costing $9, will enable a family of five to survive for a month. That is just 30 cents a day.

Both chronic and acute malnutrition are spreading in Covid-wracked Africa. The economic catastrophe of lockdown has brought a very real and ongoing threat of starvation – and not just in countries where food insecurity is sadly familiar. Symptoms of kwashiorkor, a protein deficiency, include a swollen belly, and are appearing among children and even adults in Swaziland, where the disease has been unknown for many years.

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Covid emergency support has benefited Kenyan Christians. Barnabas has already fed 600,000 Christians suffering from Covid lockdown or locusts, or both. Help us feed another 600,000 now.

Save a Family of Five

Will you help us feed another 600,000 Christians?

Your gift of $27 will keep an African Christian family alive for three months.