Participate in a global soup kitchen

The 5 Alive Campaign
A global soup kitchen

Wikipedia defines a soup kitchen as a place where food is offered to the poor for free or at a reasonably low price. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as an establishment for preparing soup and supplying it to the poor or unemployed, either free or at a very low charge.

The essence of a soup kitchen is to supply the basic needs of the poor and helpless.

In this modern age, we would have thought that it is not hard for people to meet their basic daily needs on their own. The truth is there are many people who cannot do so, not because they do not want to, but because the government who is supposed to protect them is persecuting them, burning their villages and crops, and killing them on sight, children and all.

I am referring to the internally displaced people in Burma.

The United Nations defines an internally displaced person as a person who has been forced to flee or leave their home as a result of or in order to avoid the effects of:

Armed conflict
Generalised violence, violations of human rights
Natural or human-made disasters, and
who have not crossed an internationally recognized border. template customisation, order.

The Burmese leaders has been systematically burning villages and arable land and displacing their own countrymen, leaving them without shelter and any means to support themselves.

Because they cannot help themselves, and their government would not help them. We, the international community, must.

Participate in the 5 Alive Campaign Today!

Keep 5 people alive for a month with USD 50.00.

Your money will be used to buy the following 5 basic items for a group of 5:

75 kilograms of rice; 5 kilograms of salt
1 cooking pot
1 lighter
1 machete
1 large plastic sheet for making a roof in the jungle

The 5 Alive campaign is created by Partners Relief & Development. Partners is registered as a non-profit charity in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Australia. Currently Partners helps thousands of refugees and displaced people in Thailand, Burma, and Indonesia.

Find out more about the 5 Alive Campaign.

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"Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue,
but in deed and in truth."
1 John 3:18

"He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

Make a difference now, make a donation now.

Dear soup friends,

I first came across Partners Relief & Development in Melbourne during a church service. One man was sharing at the pulpit about the dire straits of the Karen and Shan people in Burma. One man standing at the Partners booth during the mission convention weekend sharing his heart out about the injustices suffered by the ethnic minorities in Burma. This man was Steve Oddny, one of the co-founders of Partners.

I did not know that such terrible things were happening in Burma, a country not too far away from mine. I know about the famines in Africa, the war in Iraq and the earthquakes in Turkey. I did not know about the internally displaced people in Burma. Goes to show how much media publicity these people get.

What really got to me was that this people had no one to turn to. The people that was supposed to protect them were the ones oppressing them. On top of that, they cannot get out of their country because their government had warned its neighbours not to interfere in its domestic affairs.

Besides giving the money myself, I thought I should write and share about them here and appeal to you to help them too.

Come, join me and participate in the global soup kitchen - the 5 Alive Campaign.

The 5 Alive Campaign A global soup kitchen

Participate in the 5 Alive Campaign Today!

"Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and in truth." 1 John 3:18 "He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8

Make a difference now, make a donation now.

Make a difference now, keep 5 alive.Make a donation now.

The 5 Alive Campaign
A global soup kitchen

"Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue,
but in deed and in truth."
1 John 3:18

"He has told you, O man, what is good;
and what does the Lord require of you
but to do justice, to love kindness,
and to walk humbly with your God?"
Micah 6:8

Make a difference now, keep 5 alive.
Make a donation now.