Manna from Canada...what a blessing!

20 foot container with 80 drums

Package of dried vegetable soup mix

The month of May has been full of blessings, including our most recent delivery of a container filled with eighty 45-gallon drums stuffed with dried vegetable soup mix.  Food for the Hungry-Canada and Okanagan Gleaners came together to fill this container in order to help us feed thousands of hungry children and families in the Drakenstein Valley.  This is the third shipment that we have received since our partner Emerge Poverty Free in London coordinated the partnership between these organizations and the MCM Food Center which was was opened in 2008. The staff of Monte Christo Miqlat (MCM) is so grateful for this recent delivery!  The dried soup mixture (which consist mainly of brussel sprouts, onions, tomatoes, carrots, peppers, beans, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, beets, turnips, potatoes, and dried peas) has been a main component of the hundreds of pots of soup that we prepare every month.  

Unpacking the drums

Making soup

On the day the shipment arrived, Leandri Linde, our new Community Nutrition Manager said "The vegetables we received today will make a huge difference in the nutritional value of our meals."  Marvin White, our Food Center Manager, has used the soup mix for over a year now.  He said "Now we can feed more people in the community." 

A blessed pot of nutrition!!!

Our FH Canada (Food for the Hungry-Canada) is part of the global Food for the Hungry association, and is a Christian non-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty - one community at a time.  You can learn more about the organization and what they do at www.fhcanada.org.  Founded in 1994, Okanagan Gleaners (www.okanagangleaners.ca) has been gleaning the crops of the Southern Okanagan Valley since 1996, to produce food for the hungry of the world.  They literally take vegetables that would have normally been wasted and turn them into soup mixes that are shipped to hungry communities all over the world.  The MCM staff is grateful that the Drakenstein Valley is one of those communities and we thank our Canadian partners for joining our efforts here!