Our Food Program focuses on feeding children in the Soweto slum. As part of this, severely needy children from our sponsorship program receive school meals twice a week. It is important for us that every child gets the same chances and can participate in class well strengthened. A good education can only lead to positive results on the basis of good meals. As with our school sponsorships, it is important to us to leave some of the responsibility with the parents and hence we limit serving meals only twice a week. This year we were already able to provide 20 wonderful children with breakfast and lunch two times a week. The project has been very well received and the feedback from the school is very positive. The children’s concentration increases and they are more active in class. Our supported children have also achieved better grades on average, which we are also very proud of. The situation in the slum has worsened considerably due to the world situation, which is why more and more families are approaching us and asking for support.

From January 2023 we can expand the project to 20 more children and thus enable a total of 40 children to have breakfast and lunch in school twice a week. We have already purchased a new and larger cooking pot, as the old one was not enough for our 20 children either. Our next step will be to buy 20 more lunch boxes. These are heat insulated and therefore great for bringing hot meals to school. The evening before the children get food for school they bring their lunchboxes to our local partner organization, Soweto Youth Initiative, where the food is then prepared for the next day. Our cook prepares the meal and the children pick the lunchboxes up from her on their way to school. They also get mandazi, a typical Kenyan pastry, which is a first snack on the way to school. For later in the day, the lunchbox contains both a breakfast as well as a filling lunch.

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