If you want to support the Poco a Poco Children's Dining Room that we run at our community center, we would love your help!   We are feeding around 160-180 (sometimes even more) children, five days a week.  This is a huge undertaking.

 

We need regular donations to pay for food.  We struggle providing sufficient protein.  Perhaps you would be willing to:

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•        Donate 48 eggs on a regular basis? 

•        Or beans and rice?

•       Or meat or cheese (that would be a luxury)?

•        Meat bones and vegetables for a healthy soup?

•        Or fresh fruit and vegetables for the children?​

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Providing nutritious food for these children is really important:  a diet which includes protein, fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as water-based drinks.

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Many of the children have shown signs of malnutrition and poor nutrition, and we see the improvements, not just in their health, but their social skills as well.

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Other programs that need support include:

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• Funding for medical expenses, because we help some families with essential health insurance coverage so they can get their medicines and treatments for kidney disease, and even eventual kidney transplants.

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• ​Education costs:  We pay for a primary school teacher and her assistant to provide tutoring to over 30 children, three mornings a week.  These children are making such progress with this help - we can't stop doing this.  But it costs around $125 US a week and we need help.  

• Continue building our community center.

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• Financial support to pay for the adminsitrative expenses for WiFi, water delivery, electric bills, gas and electric for cooking;

 

• Clean drinking water for the Children's Dining room, as well as refilling the water cistern which is used for cooking, cleaning, and washing hands;

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• Ongoing projects that give people in these areas ways to make a living, with pride.