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Food for 400 Orphan Families

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AFCA will provide daily food for six months to 400 orphan families suffering from food insecurity, giving them strength to receive training on how to grow food. This gives them a life skill. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Food insecurity is a big problem for most Zimbabweans, but it affects orphans even more. In the near past, the current government did not allow the import or distribution of food to Zimbabweans, while at the same time curtailing the provision of fertilizers for many years, effectively ruining crops and the supply of food. 400 orphan families will benefit from this project.

Activities

Each orphan family will receive nutritious food, giving them strength to be trained so they can engage in a viable sustainable livelihood activity - growing food and raising animals to replace food distribution with sustainable livelihood.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $4,455
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $31,545
Total Funding Goal: $36,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

400 children and adults receive food and life-saving skills. This, in turn, will arrest the vicious cycle of hunger and food distribution year after year.

Project Message

Thank you so much for partnering with us in this life-skills/feeding program! We look forward to seeing many orphan families suceed and move forward to help themselves. This is truly life giving!
- Jean Webster, National Director

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Tanya Weaver
Staff Member
6221 Blue Grass Avenue
Harrisburg, PA 17112
United States
717.489.0206
Email:

Project Sponsor

Tanya Weaver

Organization

American Foundation for Children with AIDS Logo

American Foundation for Children with AIDS
6221 Blue Grass Ave
Harrisburg, PA 17112
United States
717.489.0206
http://www.helpchildrenwithaids.org

Learn more about American Foundation for Children with AIDS and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in ZimbabweZimbabwe and can also be found under ChildrenChildren.

For more information about Zimbabwe, read the Human Development Report on Zimbabwe or the Wikipedia entry for Zimbabwe.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on November 6, 2009.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 26, 2009

Latest Update from the Field

ATMIT arrives in Zimbabwe

By Tanya Weaver - Executive Director, October 01, 2009 05:04 PM

It is very exciting for us to let you know that two 40' containers of oat-based nutritional support has arrived in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Each container had 800 bags of the cereal, which is being distributed to the poorest of the poor in this devastated country.

While the beneficiaries find the food delicious (it really is!), they are also eating something healthy - oats, milk, sugar, vitamins, and minerals. As they gain strength, they are able to tend to their personal garden or if they don't have one, they can attend trainings on how to grow their own food or raise their own animals. So far, the project is a success and we thank you for your part in it.

Please don't forget to tell others about this important project. These folks really do want to be self-reliant and sufficient, so this hands up is a gift to them, enabling them to help themselves.

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