By Benjamin Bustos | Program Director
Our Tacloban Feeding Program started on July 2 of this year. Thank you so much for your support!
Wheng, our feeding coordinator has been waking up at 3:30 am in the morning every Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to prepare school meals for 30 kids. Some youth volunteers will come at about two hours later to help her pack the baon (packed school lunch). By six am, Wheng and one of the youth volunteers will go to the kids' community and distribute the baon before the kids go to school. These meals are composed of nutritious meat and veggie dishes that Filipinos call ulam, fortified rice, and fruit.
Not only does this feeding program provide these kids with healthy meals but it also becomes a way for us to build relationships with these kids and teach them good values. Wheng taught the kids how to be responsible by instructing them to wash their lunchboxes before they return it for their next meal.
This 3-days-a-week feeding program will run for 3 months. We will bring you the kids' progress in weight and more in our next report. Thank you for your support.
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.
