Emergency Relief Helps Feed Refugees in Africa Mission Field

The World Hunger Committee made a $10,000 emergency grant on July 17 to the Africa Mission Field for refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Apostle Bunda Chibwe reports that people in refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia are suffering from acute hunger and malnutrition because of a general lack of ability to purchase simple food items. Many of these refugees are members of Community of Christ congregations who have been displaced by intense fighting.

National church leaders from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia will travel to areas where the refugee camps are located and help provide the logistical support necessary to purchase and distribute emergency food rations. They will purchase food stocks from local farmers and merchants and make distribution based on the needs of individual families and groups. Food items to be supplied to the refugees include beans, fish, corn meal, and cooking oil.

-Wallace B. Smith, World Hunger Committee chair, reporting