{"id":434,"date":"2007-10-08T15:03:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T15:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/10\/buying-red-lett.html"},"modified":"2007-10-08T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T15:03:25","slug":"buying-red-lett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/10\/buying-red-lett.html","title":{"rendered":"Buying Red Letters Feeds Orphans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/10\/08\/rl_sticker.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"75\" alt=\"Rl_sticker\" src=\"https:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/tom_daviss_blog\/images\/2007\/10\/08\/rl_sticker.jpg\" width=\"75\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>After I submitted the final manuscript of <em>Red Letters <\/em>to my publisher, we were able to work out a deal where a portion of the book sales are invested in feeding orphans. In fact, there&#8217;s a sticker on the front of the book that says: <strong><em>Buy this book &amp; feed an orphan for a month. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How can we do this?<\/p>\n<p>Through one of our ministry partners, Children&#8217;s HopeChest has been given several containers of 243,000 meals each. Every meal in the container is prepackaged, dehydrated food&#8211;mostly fortified rice and beans. What we have to do is ship the food to Swaziland, get it through customs, and distribute the food to the ten carepoints where we are working. These carepoints serve a combined 800 children in rural Swaziland.<\/p>\n<p>Once received, the &quot;go-gos&quot; who&nbsp; run the carepoint food programs will cook and serve meals to the children on a daily basis. Right now, each carepoint has the capability of serving two meals per day to the kids.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of each of these packages of food is extremely cheap&#8211;pennies in fact. When you add it all up, the sale of each copy of <strong><em>Red Letters <\/em><\/strong>provides us with enough funds to provide one month&#8217;s worth of meals. This is possible because the meals are donated, and we are only paying for the shipment of the container into Swaziland. <\/p>\n<p>Right now, we have raised enough funds to send <strong>the first two containers <\/strong>of food to Swaziland! This was made possible through generous donations to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.5for50.com\/\">5 for 50<\/a> <\/strong>campaign that I talk about in chapter 10. As donations from the book sales begin coming in, they will help us fund the shipping of even more food and meals to the kids.<\/p>\n<p>In the next few months, we are adding <strong>six more carepoints<\/strong> in Swaziland&#8211;another 500 children living without parents. <\/p>\n<p>I want to again thank my publisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidccook.com\/\"><strong>David C. 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