Education Brazil Project #32688

Feed a Hungry Child in Brazil Today

by Action Change (Formerly GVI Trust)

Project Report | Sep 20, 2021
Our Future is in the Balance

By Tyrone Bennett | CEO / President

Dear Friends and Family,

As we start to learn to live with COVID-19 as part of our lives we have taken this opportunity to review our future of our school. Sadly our project Director had to leave the community but the rest of our local and dedicated staff members have returned and continue to run our project.

It costs us around $3,000 a month to keep our school open and to provide 75 children with an education and 3 meals a-day. It's a small school but without us these children would go hungry and uneducated so it is very important to us that we continue to provide our services. Pre- COVID-19 we was 100% funded by a couple of sources along wirth you and others on GlobalGiving. Sadly we have lost some of this support and now our future is in the balance as we prepare to rasie the funds needed.

We would love your help to promote our project and help us get some regular monthly supporters so that we can continue to provide for our children here in Brazil. All donatioons go directly to this project and school and it costs us around $100 a month to purchase enough fruit to provide a fruit breakfast to every child. We also cook a hot meal for each child at lunch and another small snack before they go home, we are also able to send food parcels home for the weekend and for all this food it costs us aroud $500 a month. Above this it costs us around $2,400 a month in electricity, gas, staff salaries and supplies to teach our children and all this is 100% free to the children and funded by donations only.

We want to make our project sustainable and have some great plans to build a sustainable food source and work with the local government to register and source government funding but in the short term we are moving to emergency management to help our school survive.

We know the future is going to be tough for us but from our team of dedicated local staff we will never give up and thank you for your support!

Thanks,

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Apr 22, 2021
Every child should have access to healthy food!

By Shayle Havemann | Project leader

Dec 28, 2020
What a year 2020 has been

By Tyrone Bennett | CEO / President

Our School will open again

Dear Supporters,

Some days it is hard for our community members to see the light at the end of a long fight against poverty and many other globoal issues that they face. With the continued support our you, our generous donors, we have continued to be able to provide a warm meal daily for our students.

This is such an important part of this project as well as funding learning resources. Poverty is a huge issue and often parents look to keep children at home to help with daily tasks and therefore loose out on an education. Without education it is almost impossible to fight the cycle of poverty.

At our local school, it's not just a building it is a safe and great part of the community to welcome children to learn. With your donations we fund a daily school meal which is not only an incentive for parents to send their children to school, as they can't afford a meal for them, but a full tummy helps children to actiive their brain and retain what they are taught.

2020 on top of all these challenges COVID-19 hit everyone worldwide and while we know things have gotten really bad for many people around the world Brazil is now in the top worst affected Countries. In December Brazil reported over 190,000 deaths due to COVID-19 with well over 3 million infected.

Our school had to close but we continued to support the chiildren from a distance, we are hoping to open in 2021 and will do everything possible to ensure we social distance and protect our students but resources are limited but every donation we get will continue tio ensure goes directly to making the lives of our chiildren better.

We wish everyone a festive and safe holiday and we hope that 2021 brings us all some better news. From everyone at our school we thank you for your donations and continued support

Thank You!

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