I admire Breedlove Inc. (Breedlove Inc., www.Breedlove.org & 806-741-0404. TTHolder42@Yahoo.com) for all of these life-saving reasons: Transforming lives through hope & encouragement. Partnering globally to provide nutritious food the world’s most vulnerable. Serving with love, respect, integrity, excellence & innovation. A food bank for the planet’s 1.2 starving people (1/6th of humanity: 30,000 children & adults dying daily from starvation); listed in The Guinness Book of Records: 1+B cumulative servings since 1993 to 75+ countries through 80 international faith, non-governmental & governmental partnerships (including United States Department of Agriculture’s US Agency for International Food Relief Program/IFRP & US Agency for International Development/USAID & Evangelistic International Ministries/GO Center). Breedlove, the world’s sole non-profit dehydrated food manufacturer, dehydrates potatoes, mixes, bags, boxes & ships 80 food products worldwide: potato, milk & soy-based Ready To Use Food/RTUF single-serving packet; also, ready-to-eat after simmering in water for 30 minutes. Now providing approximately 1M* daily servings & simultaneously offering educational & health information to the world. Service-learning engagement with Texas Tech University faculty & their G-Force students through Dr. John Kobza’s first-year Industrial Engineering class designed a project trying to convert the boxes used to ship Breedlove food into small solar ovens: www.facebook.com/BreedloveFoods?ref=tn_tnmn; Dr. Cathy.Duran@TTU.edu (business) & Dr. Katie.Langford@TTU.edu (communication studies). Overhead expense is built into the cost of the product & is held to around 3%. Over the past several years that figure has stayed as low as 4.7 cents per serving (depending on specific product blend & other factors) to process, package, warehouse & load each serving. To order a DVD or VHS with episode about Breedlove, visit www.TexasCountryReporter.com/Show.htm & select Breedlove’s 4-25-’09 listing. Also, www.Breedlove.org/Community.html Our Community Serving Theirs Web site: dozens of do-able student-led fund-raising projects. Collaborative, international partnerships with GO Centers in schools/school districts/university outreach & student organizations: Abernathy ISD, Brownfield, Floydada ISD, Idalou, Lockney ISD, Lorenzo ISD, Lubbock ISD, Ralls ISD, Shallowater ISD, Sundown & Whiteface; 15+ Texas Tech University student organizations & K-12 International Outreach (to organize Breedlove’s Communities partnership in a way to help teachers meet the curriculum requirements of their classes through collaboration with Breedlove): ColtonCarthel@Breedlove.org *$1 donation=20 servings; $50-$70K=almost 1M servings [40’ truck-load container holds 42 pallets with 36 cases/pallet [1,000 g. bag=50 servings; 12 bags/case=600 servings=26.4 lbs.; 1,562 cases/container=937,200 servings/container=41,237 lbs./container; 12 bags/case @$5/bag & $60/case (or $51/case & other potential price breaks for truckload-sized orders) – with servings/bag]. Dr. Elbia Galo (ElbiaGalo@Breedlove.org), nutrition researcher & international outreach. Vitanut Pro = 500 calories; 100 g./package @$.30/package. Collaborative partnership with Evangelistic International Ministries, www.EIMWorldWide.org & Mike Goodwin (MGoodwin@EIMWorldWide.org & 870-234-5319 or 870-904-2091). EIM reaches out to people with a message of hope & love through the Word of God & provides help to the some of the world’s most vulnerable people: the hopeless, the sick, & the hurting in Pakistan, Philippines, Cambodia, Romania, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Brazil, Cote D’Ivoire, Cape Cost, Honduras (in partnership with Breedlove Inc./GO Center), Vietnam, Nepal, & India. -- through feeding programs, medical help, Shepherd Bags ™, clothing, disaster relief, Bibles. Breedlove advocate Chase.Watters@TTUHSC.edu; Carol.Stroud@Birdsong-Peanuts.com; Phil@HarvestOfHope.Net.