Emergency Family Relief Food and Nutrition Support

 This report covers the activities in the months of  November 2021, December 2021 and January 2022. Food and nutrition security continues to be critical for economic development due to the role of nutrition in healthy growth in children who are the future of every nation. We are grateful for the support we continue to receive. Your donations are impacting the lives of many vulnerable families in informal settlements. Our onsite feeding every weekend has prevented Hundreds of children from all kinds of abuses including walking across dumping sites, rubbish, garbage collecting dirty thrown away food. Our centre now acts as a preventive centre stopping children from roaming into the streets due to hunger. Your donation has enabled us to provide a nutritious meal to hundreds if not thousands in the past several months. More so, the children are performing well in school, drug and substance abuse have reduced greatly because food is available.

During the December holidays, the number of children fed at the centre increased from 300 to 450, this was due to the closure of schools for the Christmas holidays.

Your donation helped us to build a kitchen(20ft by 16ft). We have been cooking from outside under a tree, it has been difficult during the rainy season. With this kitchen, cooking will be made easier and won’t be affected by the weather due to the rains.

In the last three months, nutritional education was introduced whereby both the children, parents/guardians and the community continue to be trained on the importance of a balanced diet. The training is handled by a nutritionist from a local health facility that we collaborate with. Women who have children under the age of 5 years have greatly benefited from this type of education. We appreciate your support, we are your collaborators doing what your heart desires most through you giving to The Ngao Foundation. With your continued support, no child goes to sleep hungry.

Dear Friends

We thank you for the support that you've continuously shown us and it is our delight that we are writing this report to show the work that we are doing. This report is going to cover the progress made for July, August and September. During July 2021, we fed 606 children, the month of August 2021 we fed 480 children and during September 2021 we fed 544 children, therefore for the three months we managed to feed a total of 1630 community children.

Based on our data analysis, there was a drop in the number of children fed compared to the previous three months simply because the school were opened and some children had gone back to school. Despite the few challenges that were faced during the feeding, we received community volunteers who help in cooking and serving the children, this made it easier to feed the children. there are also plans to increase the number of volunteers in the organisation this will increase the level of community participation and increase the sense of belonging.

There is also the introduction of activities for the children who take meals at the centre. These activities aim to improve their cognitive skills and socialization skills, the activities include chess, scrabble, darts, dancing, and drawing. Currently, we are in the process of building a kitchen where meals will be cooked and served. We are also searching for partnerships with organisations that share similar programs with us. The plans are underway to expand the centre so that we can feed more children from neighbouring towns and cities.