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Program Food Security

Worldwide, some 2 billion people suffer from malnutrition, with women and children hit hardest. Climate change, a growing world population and rising food prices are putting food security increasingly at risk. Lack of nutrition hinders economic and physical development and that is why ChildsLife fights hunger and improves access to healthy food. 

What does ChildsLife do

ChildsLife offers education with school meals so that children who grow up in extreme poverty get a nutritious meal at least once a day. ChildsLife encourages people and gives them tools to take care of themselves. Therefore vulnerable mothers in slums get their own vegetable garden or kitchen garden to grow their own vegetables. Greenhouses are placed at schools to supplement the lunch program, but also to provide financial support for the school. During the corona pandemic, food security was further compromised. Many people lost their jobs, their only source of income, and are struggling to put food on the table, not knowing where their next meal will come from. In these kind of emergency circumstances ChildsLife mobilizes extra food aid through food packages.  

Projects food security

Some examples of what we have achieved with our supporters

Greenhouses

Greenhouses

Building greenhouses is an effective and proven way to help communities and schools move towards self-sufficiency. Food security is increasingly under threat; issues such as climate change and the current corona pandemic have a major impact on structural food supplies. Greenhouses provide schools with a permanent source of income and food, allowing a school to be self-sufficient and no longer dependent on support. ChildsLife aims to install a greenhouse at every school in the ChildsLife ...
Kitchen Gardens

Kitchen Gardens

Food security is increasingly under threat; problems such as climate change and the current corona pandemic have a major impact on structural food supplies. Malnutrition is therefore a common problem. Women work hard to provide enough food and earn an income for their families. The ChildsLife Kitchen Gardens project has been very successful and has provided a healthy food source to many vulnerable women, young mothers and families since 2017. The kitchen gardens consist of a sturdy bag ...
School Meals

School Meals

ChildsLife offers education with school lunches. This ensures that children who grow up in extreme poverty receive at least one nutritious meal a day. In many developing countries the shortage of food is a daily reality. In areas of extreme poverty, children get up hungry and go to bed hungry. Hunger on an ongoing basis is more than the rumbling of an empty stomach. It means stunted physical and mental development, susceptibility to illness, reduced performance at school or even staying ...