If you haven’t experienced a Poverty Encounter tour at Children’s Hunger Fund, what are you waiting for? This award-winning, immersive Poverty Encounter experience invites visitors of all ages to step into the realities of global poverty, cultivate empathy and gratitude, prepare for missions, and serve children living in extreme poverty through gospel-centered mercy ministry.
Children’s Hunger Fund shows how children can deliver hope to suffering children through gospel-centered mercy ministry. From praying for families who receive Food Paks, to getting informed through Poverty Encounter, volunteering at Distribution Centers, and participating in Project Coin Pak and Project Food Pak, kids can play a powerful role in serving children in need while learning to live out their faith.
When we talk about preparing to encounter poverty, we are really inviting you to see what God is doing through His church as you step into the physical and spiritual realities faced by children around the world. At Children’s Hunger Fund, Poverty Encounter helps short-term mission teams gain a greater understanding of poverty, cultivate compassion, and be transformed to deliver hope through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. This multi-sensory experience in Sylmar, California immerses visitors in places like a home inside a dump in Guatemala City, the earthquake-damaged streets of Haiti, a brickyard in Nepal, and the sewers of Romania, while also reminding them that poverty impacts families here in America. As you serve in our Distribution Center—weighing and packing simple, nutritious food—you not only recognize your own blessings but also your ability to engage in delivering hope to children in need through local churches.
Poverty Encounter Virtual Tours are opening eyes and igniting hearts as we invite families, churches, and schools to step into the realities of children living in extreme poverty—right from their living room. Through live-moderated exhibit tours, interactive chats, and real stories from places around the world, guests witness what life is like for children surviving on as little as $1.90 a day and discover how they can deliver hope through gospel-centered mercy ministry with Children’s Hunger Fund. From Texas to North Carolina and as far away as India, students and adults are responding with compassion, prayer, and a renewed desire to make a difference—often amazed that children like Bruno and his family can survive with so little. With tours available for just $5 per device and free school tours (including specially designed K–2 options), Poverty Encounter Virtual Tours are helping a new generation see the needs of suffering children and respond with Christlike mercy.