When a child’s hungry, we provide something to eat.
It’s not complicated. There’s no circumstance in which childhood hunger is okay.
So we’re honored to partner with Convoy of Hope and their Children’s Feeding Initiatives. Every single day they provide food for more than 125,000 kids around the globe. As long as kids are hungry, we have to respond.
But handing food to hungry people won’t end hunger. As the old quote says, “Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime.”
If we want to end hunger, we need to empower hungry people to sustainably feed themselves. Impoverished people don’t need our charity. They need our creativity, knowledge, and long-term commitment to helping them discover solutions to their problems.
We’re excited to tell you about Mother’s Clubs, an extension of Convoy’s feeding initiatives that provides impoverished women with tools, resources, and education to sustainably feed their own families.
Convoy of Hope is going beyond a meal, providing experts who train and educate the women on topics such as nutritious cooking, physical development, and preventable health measures. These mothers learn how to develop successful microenterprises and even how to create community gardens. These women will become leaders in their villages and share their knowledge with others in their community.
In the long term, Convoy of Hope might transition from distributing food to distributing education, seeds, and tools. Then people learn to grow their own seeds and produce their own tools. Communities transition from dependent to productive, self-sustaining, and independent.
That’s how we end hunger.
That’s the journey of hope. Come along. Join us.
It’s gonna be a blast.
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