This fall, Canadian hemp farmers are expecting to harvest an estimated 1000-1500 tons of high protein hemp seed.

In an effort to raise public awareness of hemp seed’s remarkable nutritious properties, and to help those most in need, Hemp Can Help is hoping hemp farmers will give a little back as a symbolic thank you for ending 60 years of prohibition.

Hemp Can Help hopes to raise donations of upto 50 tonnes of hemp seed (roughly 5% of the projected 1998 harvest) from Canadian hemp farmers for global famine relief efforts.

RUSSIA
With a hard winter looming and its economy in crisis, Russia is also appealing for food and humanitarian relief. Russia's grain harvest this year is expected to be its worst since the 1950s. Many isolated regions, especially in the Russian North, are being particularly hard-hit.

According to recent Globe and Mail articles, many isolated towns and villages in the Russian Far North are facing a serious danger of malnutrition because of the Russian economic crisis, which has hampered supplies to the North. Food and fuel shortages have left many northerners in a desperate situation, and evacuations of several villages have already begun.

"The situation is really grave," said Pavel Suliandziga, vice-president of the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North. "People feel they've been abandoned and forgotten. It's a very big problem. They're losing the will to survive."

"We're starving," a letter from a resident of an isolated aboriginal village in northeast Russia said. "Local people are walking like zombies because they have nothing to eat. People are eating dogs."

We need your help! If you are growing hemp for grain this year, please consider donating a portion of this year’s crop to those in desperate need. Together we can tell Canada and the world that hemp can make a difference. Canadian hemp is not just rope, it’s hope!

If you believe that Hemp Can Help, and are interested in contributing in any way to Hemp Can Help’s famine relief efforts, please contact:

43 Melville Ave.
Toronto, Ontario
M6G 1Y1
Tel: 416-535-3497
Fax: 416-535-1616
or by email

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