We serve almost 1 million meals each year, which makes rice our most important food staple. We provide rice every day to the 1,000 children enrolled in our 17 free kindergartens. One in ten children who enters our schools is malnourished and hungry, and it's very hard for a child to learn his first lesson on an empty stomach. These healthy meals for poor kids help the whole family, benefitting the larger community. In addition, we provide food for the 70 Mercy kids who live in our homes.

Individuals in poor communities are trained and supported to tackle hunger, under employment, income generation and community health by growing and replicating organic vegetable gardens with indigenous floral windbreaks & herbs