Nutritious Foods for Sierra Leone Students

Nutrition is a key component of good health and good health is key to successful learning! With gratitude for your generous donations to our GG project, Diamond Child School has reinstated the center's feeding program. And it's already made a significan positive difference!  Our dedicated teachers have reported that nutritious meals have resulted in student's improved enthusiasm and concentration in the classroom.

The 345 Diamond School students are some of the areas most underserved and undernourished children. Reinstating our Nutrition Program has boosted a higher attendance rate as no child can afford to miss what could be their only wholesome meal of the day.  

The majority of the GlobalGiving funds cover the cost of each childs' daily meal with no one left hungry! Rice, fish, oil, onion, tomato paste, sausages, seasonal vegatables and fruits have been purchased with the GlobalGiving donations along with purified drinking water and needed kitchen wares. The donations have also covered tranportaion and delivery costs.  

Due to the pandemic, food costs have skyrocketed: For example, the cost of a 50 kg bag of rice has doubled!  Looking to the future, we have launched an ecological garden project adjacent to the school to support our "Home Economics" courses. A portion of your kind gifts has purchased seeds to plant produce (cassava, sweet potato, peppers, and eggplant.)  The funds were also used to cover watering costs as well as other materials.  Students learn valuable life skills from this project and are encouraged to plant gardens at home if possible. We hope to eventually  use the garden to offset food costs of our nutrition program and decrease our reliance on outside funding by maximizing the rotation of crops grown in the ecolgical garden. 

Diamond Child School of Arts and Culture is most grateful for the kind support received from Airline Ambassadors and their partnership with GlobalGiving.  As a community, we subscribe to a quote by US astronomer and educator, Margaret Geller:"It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent loss of imagination by providig adequate nutrition and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss."  Thank you again for supporting our endeavor.