The kids kitchen: daily meals in the wake of Covid

"Tomato, tomahto, let's call the whole thing off."

Now that you have that song stuck in your head for the next few days, check out the wonderful tomatoes (or tomahtoes, up to you) that were just harvested by our young volunteer gardeners at the We Are the Future kitchen garden.

That's going to make a lot of spaghetti-loving children happy!

Thanks to your support, the Kids Kitchen is wrapping up a third year of delicious healthy meals for the 150 nursery and primary students of the We Are the Future school in Freetown, Sierra Leone.

Kids, parents and staff couldn't be happier with the results. Once again, the pupils are thriving, the parents are relieved their children are staying healthy and the teachers notice the positive impact of good nutrition on concentration levels and school grades. We are waiting for the national exams results with great anticipation to see how well our students did this year.

None of this would be possible without you. You are literally changing lives and we are grateful from the bottom of our hearts.

But we're not stopping here. Next year, we hope to expand the kitchen to the 310 students of the adjacent school: the CAPE community school. We can no longer stand them looking through their school fence with empty stomachs while our students are eating their lunch. We can accomodate them in our dining room. But we need more funds to extend the garden and buy all the necessary ingredients, such as rice, cassava, oil, charcoal, etc. to cook balanced meal.

We hope you'll keep supporting this incredible project so that more children can go to school and learn without having to worry about where their next meal comes from. 

Thanks again and have a wonderful summer!