1,009,368 Meals from Panama City Beach to Haiti

Dear Haiti,

This month you have constantly been in our hearts and on our minds. We can’t believe the tragedy that befell you almost two months ago. We grieve for the loss of your precious children, your treasured family members, the wisdom that was buried in the rubble with your elders and the loss of your courageous leaders. How will you face the future? How will you rebuild? These questions overwhelm us and we cannot begin to fathom what they must feel like to you. If only there were words that could take away the pain and ease the hurt, but they are not enough. The tears that come, they are not enough. The compassion we feel, it is not enough.

So we must act and act now. We have 1,000,000 meals to give. 1,000,000 meals packed with love and hope for you and dreams for your future. We are dreaming for you the way that a mother and father dream for their new born child. We want only the best. We want you to experience love, hope, joy and peace. We want you to be safe and to prosper.

6,000 of our students took their time off of school to pack these meals for you. From all over the United States they came together with one purpose. They united to love you.

It does not seem right that tonight as these meals are loaded onto a container and depart for Haiti that we will go and eat meals and sleep in homes with beds and other luxuries. Please know that we will do more. We promise to not let the world forget. We promise to continue to stand by you and help as you rebuild the foundation for a new and glorious future.

We wish it was more. May this food give you strength.

Humbled,
6,000 spring break college students
Campus Crusade for Christ
GAIN (Global Aid Network)
Kids Against Hunger
& Change This World