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Cause 01 — Food & Nutrition

No child learns on an empty stomach.

Raised $3,500,000 of our $5,500,000 goal. Your gift stocks community kitchens, school meal programs, and emergency parcels across 96 partner villages.

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What this cause entails

Daily meals, honest nutrition.

Hunger is the first barrier families mention — before school fees, before medicine. So our food program starts there: reliable, nutritious, locally cooked meals that children and elders can count on every single day.

Village committees run each kitchen, buy from nearby farmers, and publish weekly meal counts back to the circle. When drought or flooding hits, the same kitchens switch to emergency parcel mode within 48 hours.

Joyful children holding meal bowls outdoors in Nigeria

What's included.

Community kitchens

Twelve kitchens serving hot lunches to 3,200 people daily.

School meal plans

Fortified breakfasts in 41 schools — attendance up 28%.

Emergency parcels

Two-week food parcels for families in acute crisis.

Garden training

Seeds, tools, and coaching for 900 household gardens.

How your gift works.

1

You give monthly

$20 stocks a kitchen for a week; $60 feeds a classroom for a month.

2

Villages cook

Local committees buy from nearby farmers and serve daily meals.

3

You see proof

Meal counts, photos, and audits arrive in your inbox quarterly.

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