Feed 200 Children Living in Kibera Slum

The BBC recently reported that up to 50% of four billion tonnes of food produced around the world is wasted each year. You can read the report here.There is plenty of food in the world, the problem is distribution.

In Kibera, kids are not going hungry because there is a lack of food in Nairobi, but because their parents or guardians lack access to adequate resouces to produce or purchase food. At Turning Point, we not only feed our kids a nutritious lunch everyday but we also give out small loans to parents as part of our microfinance project so they can start small businesses giving them the capital to purchase food for themselves and their children. Beatrice is one of our microfinance beneficiaries and her business helps her to feed her children. This is her story:

Me, I have a business selling woven material that I make myself using a loom. It takes me 2 weeks to make a set of 14 pieces of woven material and then I can sell each set for maybe 2,500/= (around £22) if I’m lucky. I’ve had my business for 2 years now and I’m very happy for it. It really helps me because I have four children who are always hungry and I always have to give them food. Last year was very difficult because they decided to increase the cost of food. I think it was because of the drought. I found it very difficult and it is still hard. Sometimes I cannot feed my family, and if my business does not sell then my children cannot eat. I am very careful with my money and it becomes very difficult when food becomes expensive. But the little I get I use to push. God will watch us.