One of the day-to-day ways in which we enhance children’s learning is to provide them all with a hot nutritious meal during the school day. This enables children to stay in good health and helps them to learn to the best of their abilities. It also encourages regular attendance, maximising their learning opportunities. Children in Kibera often miss school because they need to scavenge for food or feel too hungry to concentrate. By providing a hot meal for children attending school, we are also relieving pressure on food at home so others in the family benefit too.
Because our feeding programme costs us £1,250 per month during term time, this is a major focus of our fundraising. We are very grateful to the many people who commit to regular monthly giving to support our food programme, but we always need more!