Our School Lunch Program

Edmond explains our school lunch program and them importance of this program for our kids at our Grace Primary and Early Childhood Development Center. Please prayerfully consider a gift to help us purchase the food for our next year of school lunches.

Two weeks ago, the President of Malawi declared a state of disaster due to the erratic weather patterns which made it difficult for people to grow enough food to survive. In the US, we may struggle to make ends meet, but if we go to the store there is always food ready to be purchased. This is not the situation in Malawi. In our rural community, if you do not grow your own food it is very difficult to find food to purchase and scarcity drives the prices up higher. 

 Weather patterns this year brought both drought and floods causing about 1/4 of Malawians to fail to harvest anything from their fields. This is true in our community, too.

 The very best way we know to address hunger in our community is through our school lunch program. Subsistence farming, poverty and hunger are ongoing, continuous problems and treating them as a situation demanding relief is not good development practice, however, working through our established programs to provide food at school for our children, teaching how to grow a sustainable garden using less water and no chemical inputs, encouraging the growth of forests and fruit trees to restore water sources, attract rain and stop flooding IS good development. These ongoing programs help our community learn to address poverty and hunger at the root.

We hope you’ll take a moment to listen to Edmond share about the state of disaster and the importance of our school lunch program, meet some of our kids who benefit from the program and prayerfully consider a gift to help us reach our goal of $40,000.