Food assistance is delivered directly to households under strain — elderly people living alone, families caring for children on a single income, homes hit by a poor harvest. The programme goes further than a parcel: it works with communities on nutrition and on the resilience that makes the next hungry season survivable.
“This is the program that involves savings lives, changing lives, delivering food assistance and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience.”
The Food Scheme Program carries the part of the mission that is most immediate. When a household has nothing to cook, nothing else — school attendance, health, the ability to work — holds together for long.
Households are identified with the help of community leaders and church contacts who know who is genuinely struggling, so that assistance reaches the homes that need it rather than the homes that are easiest to reach. Elderly people living alone and families caring for children without a steady income are given priority.
The foundation's own description of the programme names two things beyond the parcel itself: improving nutrition and building resilience. That means the conversation at a distribution is also about what is being eaten and how a household can get through the next lean season — because handing over food and leaving changes a week, not a life.