By Diana Richardson | Executive Director
Quarterly bulk food baskets for orphans' households continues to be crucial in supplementing the nutrition for hundreds of children. Last quarter, 310 households received at least 5kg of maize each, as well as some rice and dried beans. It has been a dry season (again) and almost all households only have only one meal per day. With the relentless drought, most have been eating only one meal a day now for months, going on years.
Wambua's household received one of these bulk food baskets last quarter. He, his 3 siblings and 2 cousins share a small hut with their grandmother. Four of the children are living with HIV. The supplemental food baskets help ensure that these infected kids maintain proper nutrition, so that their anti-retroviral medications can succeed in suppressing the disease. Proper nutrition also helps keep these children in school. Providing the extra food allows the grandmother to spend her precious few shillings on other necessities like clothes, shoes or cooking fuel.
Thank you for helping us feed the children. Please consider continuing your support. The need in Makindu is so very great. Those same 310 households could certainly use another food basket, as could hundreds of other households struggling to make ends meet in this unforgiving crushing drought.
By Samira Lobby | Project Leader
By Diana Richardson | Executive Director
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