We serve almost 1 million meals each year, which makes rice our most important food staple. We provide rice every day to the 1,000 children enrolled in our 17 free kindergartens. One in ten children who enters our schools is malnourished and hungry, and it's very hard for a child to learn his first lesson on an empty stomach. These healthy meals for poor kids help the whole family, benefitting the larger community. In addition, we provide food for the 70 Mercy kids who live in our homes.
We run 17 kindergartens throughout some of the poorest communities of Bangkok and feed 1,000 kindergarteners every day. Rice is the basic staple for all meals. In total, every month we buy five and half metric tons of rice for our Mercy children, kindergarten students, and our neighbors, some of whom have no food. With your help we can help the children stay healthy and develop their minds and bodies.
Rice is a large part of our school and general operating budget. By reducing food costs, we can reach out further to the poorest families in the community, sponsor the education of more young students, protect more vulnerable street children, and help those around us in their times of greatest need.
It is very difficult for a child to learn on an empty stomach. With your support we will help reduce chronic malnutrition among kindergarteners and help the children stay healthy and develop as normal children, with the opportunities and chances to succeed of a good head-start in education. In the past 50 years, over 56,000 poor children have graduated from our kindergartens with a healthy start as they enter government primary schools. Please help us give each of these children a chance.
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