$25 will get you a lunch or dinner for two at Red Robin (bottomless fries!).
At the Comido school in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum where we visited yesterday, $25 is the equivalent cost of a 50kg bag of corn and a smaller bag of pinto beans, which the school uses to feed the 350 children lunch. Equivalent cost - since Feed The Children provides the corn and beans to the school as part of their aid to Kenya.
$25 to provide a meal for 350 children.
When Lighthouse Christian Church has visited the Comido school in the past, they also fed the children a breakfast of corn porridge - but no longer, since they have no money to provide the porridge.
For many of these children, this will be their only meal for the day. For some, this is the primary reason that they come to school - for the one meal of corn and beans. Yes, they get an education, and yes, they learn about Jesus - but many come for the food. Muslim kids, Christian kids, just kids - they come for the food.
$25 per day...
At the Comido school in the Mukuru Kwa Njenga slum where we visited yesterday, $25 is the equivalent cost of a 50kg bag of corn and a smaller bag of pinto beans, which the school uses to feed the 350 children lunch. Equivalent cost - since Feed The Children provides the corn and beans to the school as part of their aid to Kenya.
$25 to provide a meal for 350 children.
When Lighthouse Christian Church has visited the Comido school in the past, they also fed the children a breakfast of corn porridge - but no longer, since they have no money to provide the porridge.
For many of these children, this will be their only meal for the day. For some, this is the primary reason that they come to school - for the one meal of corn and beans. Yes, they get an education, and yes, they learn about Jesus - but many come for the food. Muslim kids, Christian kids, just kids - they come for the food.
$25 per day...
Thanks for a very challenging post. A little money from the U.S. can go a long way in Kenya toward making a real difference improving lives.
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