Feed a Hungry Child in Brazil Today

Introduction 

Many rural families migrate towards urban areas in Brazil which means schools quickly become overcrowded. As many children spend their days on the streets leading to lives of crime we will focus on providing young children with access to education, providing more opportunity for the future. As a result of financial hardship and a lack of dietary education in the favela, many children show signs of malnutrition; weight loss, poor growth, increased susceptibility to illness and poor concentration.

Report 

Working with local community leaders we will fund more access to education ensuring the children have a chance to learn. With this project, we aim to improve nutrition by providing students with 3 balanced meals per day. We also provide weekend and holiday food and fruit packages whenever possible to help ensure that children are well fed when not at school. The project employs a local cook to prepare school meals.

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Dear Friends and Family, 

This is a special update on #givingtuesday

Our school in Brazil due to COVID-19 has lost our corporate fundraiser and now we are in trouble and struggling to keep the doors open. We are a small school and provide education to a small group of children that have fallen through the cracks of the system and without us would not be educated. 

We have 3 teachers, 1 teaching assistant and then 1 cook and 1 kitchen assistant, we are a small team that educates 40 - 50 children daily. We provide every child with a piece of fruit, a small breakfast and a hot cooked lunch every day and then our cook prepares a weekend food parcel for each student and their family. We also have a few young children and fund milk for them. 

Our budget is $2,300 a month and this covers 5 salaries, food, milk, supplies, learning resources, photocopying, gas and power for the school and all our running costs. In our bank right now we have enough to survive 7 weeks and so we decided to send this special report on givingtuesday to not only update on our situation but hopefully to help us raise a little extra to get through the rest of this year. 

Today we will also be celebrating all children that had a birthday in November with a small lunchtime party and a little gift from us as often this is all they get. We will then be studying maths and spanish in the afternoon. We are hoping to bring in some local crafts people to talk to the children and inspire them of a potential future they can have if they work hard. 

Thank You,

Em