A story today from our Hunger Relief Advocate friends in Idaho: In 2004, Orville and Heidi Thompson were deeply in debt, with no money and no credit. They even raiding their children's piggy banks just to buy groceries.
In the time since, the Thompsons bought a tiny company called Scentsy, moved it to Meridian and built it into a direct-sales business that has generated more than $700 million in revenue. And now Scentsy will lend a hand in a big way to families who struggle to put food on their tables by matching every donation to "Halt the Hunger" dollar for dollar up to $300,000.
Since the Idaho Food Bank can provide three meals for only one dollar, the donations and the matched funds will provide 1.8 million meals for Idahoans. Visit the main website of this campaign here:
The "Halt the Hunger" drive will run through the entire month of August. (Source: KPVI News 6)
Day 63. Dollar 63. Pound 63. We give thanks today for this Avenue of Hope in Idaho - together, we can halt the hunger!
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