We immediately saw a huge need in our local community for kids from single Mom homes and kids living in extreme poverty. Many kids go without food all day until a single Mom returns home at night. We decided to feed them, provide homework help and love on them! This program is geared to single Mom’s families and children who live in extreme poverty. Every child in the project lives in very challenging situations. We feed these kids lunch, have Bible time devotion, we do arts and craft but we also do very basic “need things” such as hair washing, teeth brushing, hand washing, shoe shining, we provide haircuts and school supplies. We simply share the LOVE of family and purpose. For many of our children, this will be the only warm meal of the day. On empty stomachs, kids don’t have the energy to focus, engage, learn and grow. Children struggling with hunger may be more likely to repeat a grade in elementary school, experience developmental impairments in language/motor skills and have more social and behavioral problems
Many Mom’s work in the fields 10 hours a day 6 days a week earning less than $2 per day. We were providing this for the severely distressed/poor kids in the Live Simply community. This project is seeking ways to prevent child abandonment allowing fully fed kids both spiritually and physically to return home with homework done causing no burden to the family allowing to keep kids at home rather than the streets at night.
Chronic child malnutrition affects 35 percent of children. Anemia affects over 46 percent of children under the age of three. Insufficient access to food, poor consumption patterns, inadequate childcare, poor nutrition practices and low educational levels are the main drivers of chronic child malnutrition and anemia in Peru.
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