Keep an At-Risk Child from Starving

Urgent

Nutrition

Hunger Relief Fund

Family Preservation Fund

Food Security Is a Complex Issue

But getting nutritious food daily shouldn’t be

The vulnerable children we serve live in areas of great poverty. This means that without your help, they often go hungry and are at risk of starvation because they can’t access food or afford to buy it. For children, extended periods of hunger take a physical toll that stays with them for life. It can stunt their growth, increase their vulnerability to illness and slow their cognitive development.

Our Nutrition Programs

Ethiopia

Through our Family Preservation programming, all participating families have the food they need. In addition, parents receive nutrition counseling and advice from their social worker on how to improve food security, and farming and animal husbandry grants in rural areas.

Guatemala

All families in our Family Preservation program receive monthly food baskets that ensure they have nutritious food to eat every day. With our partners, we run a school feeding program through the local Community Center that gives kids a hot meal after school. Our families all benefit from the organic farm that’s part of the program community — the nutrient-dense produce grown there is in the food baskets and served at the Community Center.

Burundi

All Family Preservation program families receive monthly food baskets — this guarantees that they get at least two nourishing meals a day. In addition, mothers who work on our program partner’s organic farm as part of the Jobs for Pay scheme can take home some of this quality produce to feed their families. We also provide essential infant formula for all babies in the care of orphanages where we work; without this, babies would die of starvation as formula is unaffordable to these severely underfunded orphanages.

Testimonials

In their words…

Kamali was born with a health problem (asthma) and she was hospitalized for 2 month after birth. Her mother also died while giving birth to her and her father could not take care of her with her health condition. She was, therefore, taken care by her aunt after her mother’s death. She was brought at the orphanage by her aunt. She has now recovered well from asthma and she is now in second year of nursery school. —Kamali Orphanage Director, Burundi

Meleak was brought by his father at the orphanage 2 months after birth. His mother died after giving birth to him. He is a 7th child in his family. After his mother died, he was being breastfed by his aunt but could not manage 2 children therefore they had to look for another alternative. He was in a serious malnutrition when he was first brought at the orphanage but due the availability of milk, was able to recover and is now in good health. Very soon he will start nursery school. —Meleak Orphanage Director, Burundi

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