Moms Against Hunger

New Pictures from Harrisburg ILL.

This morning as the majority of Americans woke up in a warm house, our brothers and sisters in Illinois woke up to the nightmare that is their reality now.... 

Sleeping in their cars or hastily made shelters, holding their children close, fighting off the depressing thoughts of What Now??

Moms Against Hunger is proud to tell you that the Coca-Cola truck showed up this morning with beverages for the thirsty!

Thank you Coca-Cola!!!

Coca-Cola is still the Real Thing!!

Powerade to get the Survivor's energy up!!

Moms Against Hunger was donated a warehouse space to start receiving supplies:

It has some maintenence issues before we can began serving the survivors...

There are several large holes we have to fix, we need to spray the building for bugs, disinfect the floors and bathrooms with bleach, find pallets and a forklift, and Volunteers to serve!!!

We have several Volunteers already, Mothers with terrifying stories and Fathers broken hearted over the loss of everything... but still they come to serve others, to help other families just like them begin the process of rebuilding...

A big "Thank You" goes to our Volunteers and Coca Cola!!!!! Wee could not help these families without YOU!!!

Fox News Article

'Moms Against Hunger' Hunger for More

Updated: Tuesday, 09 Mar 2010, 3:26 PM CST
Published : Tuesday, 09 Mar 2010, 3:26 PM CST

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  ANDREA WATKINS
  Reporter

HOUSTON - Several weeks have passed since the massive earthquake that struck Haiti and the plight of survivors is growing more desperate, based on the account from a Houston-area woman who has already hand-delivered help to thousands of Haitians. She now wants to do even more.

"The families that are there are now are living outside under cardboard or plastic tenting, or a tablecloth or bedsheets," says Dr. Gayla Holley. "You can not imagine how they're living."

Dr. Holley visited Haiti on behalf of a non-profit organization she founded in 2009, Moms Against Hunger. Helping people of Haiti has become her top priority. Even though she just delivered four containers of donated food and supplies, she says it is not enough.

"It upset me. It shook me up to see the conditions. It was hard to not cry in front of them," said Holley after returning from Port-au-Prince, the heart of the earthquake disaster.

Holley describes people living a nightmare. She said they have no way to provide for themselves, let alone their children. Mothers stand packed in line for hours waiting for a food handout while fathers take apart buildings to salvage bricks.

Nearly seven weeks since the earthquake, Holley believes people are losing hope.

"They see that less and less people are there to help them," said Holley. She believes that people will die if relief shipments do not continue. But she cannot do it alone.

Moms Against Hunger needs donations of items that include first aid kits, baby wipes and formula. The organization also needs food that requires no cooking or a can opener. Perhaps most of all, it needs generous amounts of cash.

"It costs me $7.000 to ship a container," explained Holley.

"I need corporations. I need businesses. I need owners that would love to be a part of feeding, clothing, and taking care of people."

Holley has documented every part of her organization's relief efforts on its website, momsagainsthunger.org, where anyone can make a donation.

Moms Against Hunger needs the following items:$40,000 for truck distribution,$7,000 for shipping aid containers to Haiti, bottled water, baby wipes, formula, cereal, aspirin for children, Oragel for teething toddlers, cough drops, antibiotic ointment, bandages, aspirin, diapers, diaper cream, baby powder, baby lotion, soap, wash cloths, towels, toothbrushes, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, blankets of all sizes, baby food, shoes of all sizes for children, clothing, granola bars, juice boxes, peanut butter and crackers.

Hearts for Haiti

 

 

The children of America are concerned about the children in Haiti.  After several conversations with children about 'what are the children doing without food?"  I reassure them that their moms love them and we are all helping them to get fed everyday.  It helps their little worried hearts to bring food to MAH.  

Schools... Sunday School classes.... Kids Clubs... Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts plus families are all bringing donations to us to ship their supplies to children in need.

 

"We care about you Haiti!" the children said....

Kujawa Elementary International Baccalaureate World School donated supplies for Hait.  And these children gathered donations for weeks to send with Moms Against Hunger.  I am so proud of them and their teachers.  Truly these children are learning how to be world citizens and care for all peoples. 

 

Together we carried boxes and bags from the school to the truck.

 

Their little hands lifted and tugged and heaved heavy supplies up inside the truck.  It was cold and rainy but no one complained they were all excited to be a part of the solution for Haiti.

 

Special thanks to the 4th grade class!  I will be sure to tell the Haitian children the messages you gave to me to tell them. 

 

Two Girl Scouts also came by the school and gave me messages to tell the Haitian children.  "Please tell them we are sorry and we care, and we are sending what we can to help them in the earthquake.  We hope you get better soon!"

 

What a great school - thank you for teaching the children values beyond simple learning skills.

High Schools Donate to Haiti

Tomball High School gathers supplies and delivers them to Moms Against Hunger for Haiti. Thank you to all the students who gave to help the suffering moms and dads and children who survived the catastrophic earthquake. And thanks to the teachers who guided the students and took time to bring the trailer full of goods to MAH!

Donations are brought...

Thank you to the YMCA and the Mark Twain Grade School for your donations to Hait!

Water... food....baby items... clothing have been gathered and send to Moms Against Hunger for Haiti.  These will be put on the next container being prepared now. 

Containers for Haiti

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Out of all the things that are so needful to a mom.... here is one thing you can send that she will appreciate.  Diapers. I need all sizes please.

The Houston Police Department arrives with supplies ready for MAH to load and ship on the next container.

Thanks for caring!

Supplies of all kinds have been collected by each HPD Unit and brought to MAH.  Sergeant Babb has been a big help. And it's just in time because the next container is being loaded to ship to Haiti - #3.

 

And here it is leaving our warehouse yard.  Container is jam packed.... and painted on all four sides as to who it's from and who it's going to.  (Can't get our containers mixed up or lost in the port!!)  Thanks HPD your donations will be arriving in Haiti soon!!

 

 

Please Help MAH ship supplies..... donate today.

WAITING FOR WATER: Five-year-old Jean Delimat await a chance to fill his jug from a broken water pipe as others try to bathe in the water.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

 

HOMELESS: A man holds his sleeping son during another night in a park in Port-au-Prince. Thousands of people are afraid to sleep in their homes, and many have no homes to go to.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

 

FOOD: Rebecca Brutus, 4, hangs on tight to a package of food her family received in Leogane.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

 

HAIRCUT: Willins Jean, 9, cries as he gets a haircut in an alley in Port-au-Prince, where many businesspeople have set up shop in the streets. The boy said he was crying because he was hungry.
(Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times

 

HUNGRY: Two women collapse from exhaustion after fighting the line to reach a food handout. Despite a heavy police presence in Cite Soleil, one of the poorest neighborhoods in Port-au-Prince, the food distribution became violent. Thousands crowded at a gate trying to get food.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times

 

DESPERATION: Desperate Haitians try to push through a gate at a food handout in the poor Port-au-Prince neighborhood of Cite Soleil. Some women collapsed from exhaustion in the crush of people trying to get food.

(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Needs list for Haiti Earthquake Moms and Children

Shipping Needs List

Water

Wipes

Formula

Cereal

Baby aspirin

Oragel – for teething toddlers

Cough drops

Antibiotic ointments

Band aids/bandages

Aspirins

Diapers

Diaper cream

Baby powder

Baby lotion

Soap

Wash clothes

Towels

Toothbrushes

Toothpaste

Hand sanitizer

Blankets (all sizes)

Sheets (all sizes)

Baby food

Kids shoes (all sizes)

Clothing

Open and eat type foods

Granola bars

Juice boxes

Peanut butter

Crackers

Trail mix

 

What goes in a container for shipping?

Water....water...water. 

Packets of much needed items for a mother to use for her children.  It's easier for her if we are able to ship items already put together like this.  Then the aid worker only has to handle this bag one time... with many items inside it's a much easier, quicker way to get many supplies into her hands.  Plus it's packaged in a way she can handle it simply. 

 

And food.... lots of food - first to be shipped are emergency food packets that are easy to open and eat without needing anything to prepare it with.  (no heat needed, no can openers or extra handling needed)

 

Shoes that are simple to wear - fits all sizes, men or women, rubber soles for walking in rubble.

Small, Medium. Large and Ex Large all sizes are shipped. 

 

Cases, or rolling bags or backpacks are shipped to help the victims carry the supplies away.  Imagine ... how do you carry the emergency foods, water, blankets and shoes etc without a way to handle it all?  Plus carry the baby?

 

Shoes for little feet too. Many colors... and sizes.  A mom will be so grateful for her baby's  feet to have something to protect them from the glass, concrete, thousands of nails, and wood slivers that are everywhere from the earthquake and after shocks. A toddler wants to walk.... not be carried constantly.

 

Formula.... diapers....cereals.... baby foods... diaper cream.... blankets,,,,anything we  can ship to help the thousands of mothers with small children!

Volunteers to help

Volunteers pitch in to help load up the donations for Moms Against Hunger shipments.  Sacks and boxes, plastic bags and tubs filled with food, clothing, cleaning goods, and supplies are packed up and prepared to ship in our next shipment around the world. 

Supplies for Haiti

St Andrews Presbyterian Church  donates their gathered supplies to Moms Against Hunger and the next shipment that will be loaded later this week for Haiti.  We start packing the goods of water, food, first aid items, towels, clothing, blankets and baby supplies such as formula and diapers.  It's been a busy day!

Discovery...

We discover the supplies for a entire community just across the border of Mexico.  This is chilling to think that it will actually help more than a handful of people. We will start arrangements immediately to send aid to this poor village of refugees that have ended up here at the mercy of others. The language barrier is tough, but the hearts understand we want to help.

Plan your work and work your plan.

Dividing the food boxes into different directions requires coordination and cooperation from volunteers, workers and Pastors.  Out of the city of Bulawayo Zimbabwe,  it's quiet and a place to think clearly, plan well and divide the food to get started asap. 

Container loads of aid

 

We help by the container load – the shipload – an even at times by the pick up truck load. 

This is a local Shelter in need of supplies of which we are always glad to give what we have to help out.  This particular donation is diapers and is being loaded to be sent  to a  140 bed battered women’s shelter. Here it will be gratefully received and used for the mothers and babies in need of care.

I have seen mothers arrive in a shelters with their babies without diapers and wrapped in kitchen tea towels!  This hurts me.

It always warms my heart to see the grateful smiles when we arrive with a load of aid and encouragement!

Diapers for Babies

 

This couple operates a charity in  America, of which we were able to help supply a much needed item.  Diapers!! These are like gold in our world.  Babies have 3 giant needs – warm clothing, good food and DIAPERS. 

Moms Against Hunger is proud to support other mothers in their needs. Every Shelter needs this valuable provision for little ones.  I am a Mom and have been there, done that!

When we lived in Africa as a young Mom I would have given ANYTHING to have some disposable diapers!  It makes me happy to help this couple in their charity work.

Romanian Boys Orphange

This all boys orphanage in Romania was discovered - children living distressing lives of no family, no good place to live, and with  no decent living conditions.  Reporters told of absolute squalor and disease ridden rooms filled with boys of all ages and conditions.  The mentally handicapped were given no considerations or special attention.  I cried when I saw it!  How could anyone treat little children like that!  So we immediately went to work raising funds to change their lives!

Today this orphanage is a happy place.  They are housed in a better location, good care is taken of their hygienic needs, they all have warm clothing on and enough food to eat.  When I took this picture everyone was about to eat a special meal, and receive a special gift from us.  I loved these boys as a mother and hugged and kissed each one of them! Seeing them eat better, and have clean living conditions means the world to me! It took time and finances, energy and dedication - but I know these children are doing better now.   No child should ever live in such wretched conditions - and they won't when I can find them and do something a mother would do to help her children. 

Earthquake in Haiti

I am preparing a shipment right now from our Houston warehouse to be placed aboard a ship... please help by donating money for this most desperate need.  With your response we will have food and supplies there quickly...You can follow our progress on this website.... Thank you in advance!   Dr. Gayla Holley

Clothing for the Nations

Would you like to see how we give clothing?  Not by the suitcase full or by the box load, but by the bale full!  One of these bales put into a truck will clothe an entire village with good clothing for all.  Each bale weighs between 800 and 1,000 pounds, and it takes a forklift to pick one up.  One container ready for shipment overseas can hold 24 of these huge bales.  When I was a child in Africa, we would get round metal barrels of clothing for the Africans, it was A VERY SMALL AMOUNT.  And how fair is it to give one person standing before you in utter rags a new shirt, and yet the person standing behind them just as ragged gets nothing.  Those were  the old days before true needs were know in the outside world.  And as an  adult, I have never forgotten those old barrels of clothes sometimes rusty and leaking. Never again.  Under Moms Against Hunger we ship good clothing  like this around the world to third world countries.