Food Security Philippines Project #19203

Kitchen Care- Kusina ng Kalinga

by Gawad Kalinga Community Development Foundation, Inc.

Project Report | Nov 16, 2020
KnK Update

By Marlyn Importante | Key Accounts Manager

Dear Partners,

It is said that we cannot do great things alone, but we can do small things with great love. It is this same force that binds us and propels us forward in hope and in one spirit.

Due to the effects of the COVID-19, hunger became bigger and its grip became tighter. This School Year 2020 – 2021, millions of kids will be studying from their homes and communities. In these unprecedented and uncertain times, we need to make sure that they get all the help we can give. That is why this year, Kusina ng Kalinga will go to where the kids are.

KnK will establish kitchens located at the community level where meals are prepared and served by parent-volunteers for kids ages 1 to 12 years old for at least 120 days. Meals are served to kids in their homes or community centers in partnership with the local government units.

With the recent tyohoons that devastated the Philippines amid the presence of the pandemic will continue to increase. Self-rated hunger averaged 10% for the past 20 years which affects roughly around 2.1 million Filipino families annually. But as of July 2020, this number has gone up to 5.2 million, because of the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The response of KnK is to establish kitchens located at the community level where meals are prepared and served by parent-volunteers for kids ages 1 to 12 years old for at least 120 days. Meals are served to kids in their homes or community centers in partnership with the local government units.

Help us bring food to those who need it the most in this time of pandemic. Join us in the battle against hunger and poverty. We should be able to tell ourselves that no child went hungry under our watch. Hunger ends where caring begins.

Links:

KnK updates

Attachments:

Program Brief (DOCX)

1 Attachment

Permalink

Jun 18, 2020
Care Kitchen Newsletter

By Marlyn Importante | Key Accounts Manager

Feb 24, 2016
Care Kitchens: Challenging everyday realities

By Paula Nierras | Team GK

"If hunger is their reality, it is difficult to dream. It is hard to learn. It is even harder to talk about the future of our country. We hope that through Kusina ng Kalinga (Care Kitchens), the urgency of fighting hunger becomes second nature to everyone."

- Jose Luis Oquinena, GK Executive Director

Care Kitchens was started to mitigate hunger among children in the wake of Haiyan, but working on-ground with communities in almost all of the 80+ provinces in the Philippines, we know firsthand that hunger is an everyday reality to many: Not every Filipino child is fortunate enough to eat everyday, facing the threat of not realizing their full potential - not growing to be as tall, as healthy, nor as bright as they could be.

When we opened our first kitchen in Leyte in August 2014, we were armed with the belief that there is no shortage of people who care. And everyday since the first day of operations, this belief is affirmed. Today, we are now caring for 20,000 kids by operating 12 kitchens in 9 provinces nationwide. Encouraged by the overwhelming support of people like you, our partners from both the private and public sectors, our volunteers on-ground, and our hope storytellers online, we were able to bring Care Kitchens to many other provinces in the Philippines, even going beyond areas affected by Haiyan.

Albeit 20,000 is but a small fraction of the ~15M young Filipinos facing hunger everyday, we find hope in the increasing number of people who are joining us in this journey. Indeed the task remains massive, but everyday in each of our Care Kitchens we see another version of reality: The persistence of hunger is no match against the persistence of our caring. And this is exactly what we want to make mainstream. Day in and day out, hunger ends where caring begins.

Lunchboxes that contain our commitment to care.

Links:

Permalink

‹ 1 2 3 ›

About Project Reports

Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.

If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.