Feeding Hope and Hunger

For 50 cents a day, you can keep a refugee child fed and in school. Odilon Ilunga is headmaster of an elementary school in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, the largest refugee camp in Malawi. Unfortunately, some of his students have been kept home from school by parents to help earn money for food or leave school early in hopes that their parents have found something to eat while they were away.

Since July, a devastating combination of rising global food prices and devaluation of the Malawi Kwacha have tripled the price of many foods in Malawi. Even the children who have been kept from school often go hungry as the nation faces a food security crisis.

That’s where your donation comes in: for 50 cents, educators like Odilon can provide meals at their schools, encouraging attendance while saving lives. The long-term benefits of early childhood nutrition and education are proven science, leading to longer, healthier, better lives, and your donation will also provide immediate relief .

Who Are We

Feeding Hope & Hunger is a new charity seeking 501(c)(3) status. Our founders have participated in other charitable endeavors in Guatemala, Ghana, and Malawi. During a trip to build a chicken farm to help employ and feed refugees in Dzaleka, we met Odilon and became aware of this issue affecting his primary school students.

Seeing that a need was not being addressed, we decided to start our charity to help the children of Dzaleka build a foundation for healthy, happy, self-sustaining lives. Our goal is to expand from this initial project to make a real difference in the lives of refugee children in the region and, eventually, the world.

Where Your Money Will Go

Our funding goal of $52,000 is very intentional: it will give us enough money to feed 375 students, as well as 25 volunteer teachers and cooks. Weekly, these 400 meals should cost $2.50 per person, or $1,000. We hope to provide these 400 students and volunteers school lunches for a year, thus $52,000.

As a new charity, we have little to no overhead. We plan on assisting headmasters in purchasing food directly, and none of the money raised here will pay salaries or staffing fees. If we raise more than our $52,000 goal, the additional money will go first to providing more school lunches for children in Dzaleka, then towards our next project.

If you can’t donate personally, please share our campaign on social media and tell your friends. We hope this project is just the first of many. Thank you so much for your support: you are making a child’s life better.

Instgram: @FeedingHopeandHunger

Web: Feeding Hope and Hunger (feedinghopeandhunger.org)