What is childhood
food insecurity?
Misson
The mission of Childhood Food Solutions is to develop solutions for childhood food insecurity that can be applied in a community, tested for effectiveness and duplicated in other communities.
Why childhood food insecurity?
The directors of Childhood Food Solutions have decades of experience fighting “hunger” but now we are fighting “childhood food insecurity” by assessing problems, measuring "gaps," and planning to fill them completely. To achieve food security, children must always know where food is available whenever their family might have none.
Why do we provide food?
People say, “If you give people a fish, you feed them for a day, but if you teach them to fish, you feed them for a lifetime.” Unfortunately, we do not yet have the resources to teach children on the 187 days they are out of school, so for the time being, we just try to reach them with food.
We wonder what we would do if we were children with nothing to eat. Sometimes you can hoard food when it is available or go to a friend’s home. When you reach Grade 7 or 8, you are too young to get a regular job but new opportunities arise. If you want to become food secure, you can latch on to someone with money – often those closest at hand are the drug dealers, who are interested in your ability to “run” drugs, and the pimps or older men who are interested in your sexuality.
Unfortunately, those who are available to teach children often teach the wrong lessons. Until we can be there to teach and mentor, we have to focus on feeding the children day by day.
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