By Diana Richardson | Executive Director
Food insecurity continues in the Makindu area, and affects all of the children enrolled in Makindu Children's Program. While hundreds come to the Children's Center for a daily meal, hundreds more live too far away to walk to the Center, and of course they cannot afford to pay for travel. The years long drought continues to plague the region, with crops once again failing to grow.
The food baskets we provide are saving the lives of hundreds of children and their guardians, with just the simple ingredients of maize, beans and cooking oil. Were it not for this food delivery program, this little girl would go hungry. She lives 25 km from the Center, on a dusty road deep in the severerly poverty stricken rural area of Twaandu, a satellite site of Makindu Children's Center. The goats and chickens provided through another project offer some nutrition. Forced to peck at the dried weeds though, they fail to produce enough eggs and milk to provide her household with adequate nutrition. The food baskets are a lifeline to this girl and her guardian.
A round of food delivery is scheduled for mid-October. Another round is scheduled for December. For the December food baskets, and in addition to the maize, beans and cooking oil, we will include salt, sugar and the ingredients to make chapati, a favored holiday bread.
Help us keep this girl from going hungry, make her holiday brighter, and support this Food Basket program.
Thank You!
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