By Natasha Baker | Development Volunteer
Hello GlobalGiving supporters!
We hope that you are safe wherever you are. Today we’re going to give you an update on how our Sustainable Culinary School is responding to the latest COVID-19 wave that is impacting the most vulnerable in Brazil, particularly when it comes to hunger.
In our last update, we told you about our new initiative Nourishing the Body and Soul, which is focused on preparing and distributing free, hot meals to vulnerable residents. Students from the Sustainable Culinary School prepare the meals in exchange for a stipend, basic food basket, and cooking gas. The Community Mental Health Movement firmly believes in receiving to give — empowering those in need to help others.
In this update, we’re proud to announce that in the last few months, the Nourishing the Body and Soul initiative has distributed 25,000 meals. That’s the result of about 300 meals prepared daily and then distributed to 15 neighborhoods in the outskirts of the major metropolitan city of Fortaleza and to indigenous communities in Caucaia, Maracanaú and Pacatuba. Meals are distributed at lunchtime Monday through Friday.
As if that weren’t enough, we’re also distributing donations of soup, fruit, vegetables, basic food baskets, and hygiene products to the same families being served these meals, with the goal of reducing the impact of this ongoing pandemic.
For Najla Gomes, the Director of the Soliart Foundation and a resident of the Bom Jardim neighborhood, the donations through Nourishing the Body and Soul are very welcome. Every day more and more people come to her Foundation in need of help and the Community Mental Health Movement is there in partnership to ensure everyone is helped.
The Community Mental Health Movement has adopted a few hashtags to reflect how we’ve approached this time:
#vaipassar - #thiswillpass
#omovimentonaopara - #themovementdoesn’tstop
With your help, we can continue to combat hunger and despair. Thank you for helping keep us going – because the Movement doesn’t stop!
Muito obrigada (thank you) to all of our supporters who make this work possible,
Natasha (Development Volunteer)
Mitakuye Oyasin
Îandé Memé Maranongara
Somos Todos Parentes
We Are All Related
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