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Join us for the 6th Annual Double D Farm Cruise-In benefiting Love the Hungry! The event includes dozens of classic cars and trucks, a food truck, music from the Black Dog String Band, live and silent auctions, and more! $25 raffle tickets enter your name in the drawing to win a custom built 1/2 barrel bourbon cabinet with the complete six-bottle lineup of Weller bourbons. Drawing takes place at 3 PM. (charitable exemption EXE0002776)

Don’t miss this fun, family-friendly event! Saturday, June 8th, 10 AM – 4 PM. 4900 Waddy Rd – Waddy, KY. All proceeds benefit Love the Hungry. For more details, phone 502-533-8045.

On March 2nd, members of the Bardstown Rotary Club and student volunteers from Interact Clubs and local schools helped Love the Hungry celebrate 9,000,000 total meals packaged. In addition to this annual service event, volunteers from St. John Lutheran Church and School (Lanesville, IN), UPS, and the Rotary Club of Franklin, KY helped produce 65,000 fortified meals during the month of March.

Love the Hungry, Partners in Compassionate Care, and Pack Away Hunger teamed up to fill a shipping container with 240,000+ Nutri-Plenty® servings to support the children’s feeding program at Nile Orphan Care in Juba, South Sudan. The meals will help NOC feed more than 600 orphaned children each day.

The mission of Love the Hungry is to provide nutrient-rich meals that alleviate and reverse the effects of malnutrition – especially in young children. With your support, Love the Hungry made a significant impact in 2023, reaching those suffering from food insecurity and hunger throughout the world:

— 4,000+ volunteers of all ages participated in 85 packaging sessions

— Nearly 800,000 Nutri-Plenty servings were packaged – enough to feed 25,000+ children every day for an entire month

— More than 900,000 meals were delivered to Feeding Centers in twelve countries, including Chad, Dominican Republic, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, South Sudan, Turkey, Ukraine, and the United States

— 60,000 fortified meals were donated to local organizations serving families throughout Kentucky and Southern Indiana

War and conflict have shattered Ethiopia, resulting in thousands of children unable to receive food and other essentials needed for a healthy life. Love the Hungry recently partnered with local nonprofit SOS to deliver 70,000 fortified meals and basic medical supplies to a Tigray refugee camp where many children were suffering from malnutrition. In just three days, nutrient-dense Nutri-Plenty® meals were credited for a noticeable improvement in the health of the children!

As the season officially comes to an end, we pause to celebrate the Summer of ’23. Six hundred volunteers participated in Love the Hungry packaging sessions – producing more than 145,000 fortified Nutri-Plenty servings! A container shipment of aid arrived safely at Nile Orphan Care in South Sudan – providing life changing nutrition to hundreds of children each day. More than 120,000 meals were provided to organizations delivering supplies to war-torn Ukraine. In partnership with SOS, nourishing meals are reaching children in Malawi, Ethiopia, and Nigeria, and Love the Hungry donated 15,000 meals to a mission outreach in Guatemala. It’s more than a meal. It’s the means to a healthier tomorrow.

While international distribution helps address the most urgent needs, Love the Hungry has recently provided more than 30,000 meals to assist families in Louisville, eastern Kentucky and southern Indiana. And let’s not forget that the 5th Annual Double D Farm Cruise In raised nearly $20,000 – enabling a $5,000 donation to help Nile Orphan Care build a Nutrition Center in South Sudan. Our heartfelt thanks to the volunteers, organizations, and donors that took action to make the Summer of ’23 a season of meaningful impact!

More than 300 volunteers joined Love the Hungry throughout the month of April as part of the Mayor’s “Give A Day” month of service. Volunteer teams included Middletown Christian Church, U of L Student Life/ELSB, JCPS Explore Teams (Westport Middle School, Ramsey Middle School, Newcomer Academy, Kammerer Middle School, TJ Middle School, Grace James Academy, Shawnee Middle School, Farnsley Middle School), Sims Family and Friends, St. Andrew UCC, Latter Day Saints, and Amazon.

More than 400 Wellington Elementary students grades K – 5 were among the 827 volunteers that participated in packaging sessions during the month of March. Each grade filled six stations with volunteers and rotated teams into the stations throughout the school day to create more than 11,000 Nutri-Plenty servings. In total, more than 97,000 fortified meals were produced in March with the help of volunteer teams from Toyota ProLift, Archdiocese of Louisville Youth, University of Louisville, St. Francis-Xavier, Beargrass Christian Church, and Wellington Elementary School.

Drive out to the farm, bring a lawn chair, and enjoy a great day at the 5th Annual Double D Farm Cruise-in benefiting Love the Hungry. Saturday, June 10 Noon – 5 PM. A food truck will be on site with burgers, hot dogs, sides and drinks. Music from the Black Dog String Band. Live and silent auctions help raise proceeds for Love the Hungry. The Double D Farm is located at 4900 Waddy Road in Waddy, KY. Donations of auction items in advance of the event are always appreciated. For additional information, please contact Donna at 502-533-8045.

In the aftermath of the February 6th earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria, local nonprofit organizations quickly addressed the most urgent needs and responded with a shipment of humanitarian aid. SOS helped coordinate the effort and provide logistical support to load a UPS cargo plane with 200,000 pieces of first-response medical supplies, 80 bleach making kits from WaterStep, 800 wool blankets from the local Red Cross, and more than 70,000 fortified meals from Love the Hungry. With funding from the UPS Foundation, a UPS disaster response flight was scheduled, and the supplies arrived on February 18. Non-governmental agencies in both Turkey and Syria are coordinating distribution of the supplies.

More than 50,000 deaths have been reported, and it’s estimated that 1.5 million homes were destroyed.

146 volunteers in two locations joined Love the Hungry on January 16th for a Day of Service in celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Participants included students from Bardstown HS, Bethlehem HS, St. Joseph School, and the University of Louisville, plus volunteers from the Bardstown Rotary Club and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority/Beta Alpha Xi Zeta Chapter. More than 28,000 Nutri-Plenty® servings were packaged – providing nourishment for children and families suffering from chronic hunger.