Feed My Starving Children in Africa

How Food Sprouts Seeds of Hope

Starting with MannaPack Rice, FMSC is planting seeds of hope among families. They partner with organizations that nurture those seeds - adding medical care, training, and compassion. The yield? Families like Bram, Nyale, and Christopher, restored physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Read their story...

When Christopher was three years old, his father died from an illness. A year later, his mother also died. His grandparents, Bram and Nyale, graciously brought him into their home near Bangula, Malawi, in southeast Africa.

But another mouth to feed proved difficult. Subsistence farmers, Bram and Nyale are dependent on a small harvest. Christopher dropped out of third grade to help the family survive. Then more trouble hit. Bram became frail and Nyale too sick to get out of bed. At 13, Christopher was maintaining the garden alone when a severe drought finally decimated the harvest.

Defeated and hungry, Christopher and his grandfather showed up on the steps of a ministry called Iris Africa.Iris gets FMSC meals. Christopher and his grandparents quickly improved on the food. Within a month, Nyale was out of bed gardening again. And Christopher—who was given a school uniform—returned to school. He can finish his primary education if he works hard.

Restoration of families like Christopher’s is the goal of Iris Africa’s work, and the reason that FMSC partners with them and other organizations like them. They also run a home for nearly 70 children sustained with FMSC food; tend to medical needs; train some 200 Malawian men and women each year to farm “God’s way” and share the Gospel.