By Brenda Kaloki | Field Worker
The school feeding program officially marked 14 years this March and we are excited for the far we have come. In 2003, our work in Kibera started with a bowl full of porridge and 5 kids and now we have grown to feeding 151 children two meals a day in two different centres.
We still believe in the power of the feeding programme because the children attending our education programme come from some of the poorest families and therefore they rely on the meals we serve in school since the provision at home is irregular and sometimes hardly enough. This serves to not only keep them regularly attending school but they also get to concentrate in class since they don’t have to deal with hunger.
We also get to celebrate the 14th year with a student council leader, Raphael, who is in charge of the dining, exciting times! He asked a few of his friends why they think the feeding is important and these are the responses they gave him:
“Because it helps us maintain good health”
“Because it makes us strong”
“If we don’t eat we will die”
“It is important because it helps the poor children”
We are looking forward to continuing helping the children stay healthy, strong, alive and realising their potential that will cause them to break from the cycle of poverty.
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