Our nutritional services are more than a feeding scheme; they supplement all our other programmes by giving children and families energy and ensuring they are healthy.

 

Hungry children cannot learn, develop or grow. The nutritious meals provided are, for many of our children, their only meals.

 

Every day between 300-500  meals will be prepared and served .

 

 

Caring for the sick and providing for families

 

Apart from providing our children with nutritious meals, we will deliver food parcels and cooked meals to the homes of those in the community who are ill and bedridden.

 

The idea is not to promote dependency, but rather our food parcels are a short-to-medium term intervention to assist families in crisis.  Such families and children are identified by our Social Workers and the Community and are later assisted to take steps towards meeting their own nutritional needs, so that other needy families can also be assisted.

 

About nutrition

 

Hope Africa will try and work with qualified nutritionists to ensure the meals served are healthy. We will have formally trained cooks from within the communities who prepare healthy, tasty meals.

 

We will have food gardens provide the Community in need with organic, fresh veggies and as to inspired numerous members of the communities to begin their own food gardens both for subsistence and as a means to generate income.

 

Looking at the bigger picture

 

The Nutrition and Food Security Programmes run by Hope Africa are about more than feeding the hungry – they are about teaching people how to be nutritionally self-sufficient. A good diet can help children learn and grow, while enabling adults to receive nutrients in the face of chronic illness.

 

Through our Nutrition and Food Security Programmes we will  have trained community members as cooks and helped families and children to plant food gardens. We will provide our gardeners with a garden manual to guide them through planting, harvesting and soil preparation.