Fighting child hunger in Africa.

FIGHTING CHILD HUNGER IN AFRICA

Children are particularly affected by the hunger crisis in Africa. There are far too many starving kids in Africa, every single affected kid is one too much. 3.2 million children under the age of 5 die each year in sub-Saharan Africa - that's about half of the world's deaths in this age group.

This great initiative is put up by four young and inspiring girls,
Leah from Africa, (https://twitter.com/NamugerwaLeah)
Licypriya from Asia (https://twitter.com/LicypriyaK) and
Lily from Europe (https://twitter.com/lillyspickup)
Alexandria from America (https://twitter.com/AlexandriaV2005)

Malnutrition threatens to destroy a generation of children in Uganda. More than one third of all young children – 2.4 million – are stunted. The damage caused by stunting is irreversible.

Between 2013 and 2015, it is estimated that more than 500,000 young Ugandan children died. Of these deaths, nearly half were associated with undernutrition. Undernutrition is responsible for four in 10 deaths of children under five.

Hunger linked to COVID-19 could kill more people than the virus itself according to Oxfam. Covid-19 will be worsening a situation that has been created by the climate crisis.
While many children will be enjoying heavy meals during this year’s Christmas, millions of children in Africa will be starving.

Climate activists from Netherlands, India and Uganda (Lilly, Licy and Leah) have joined hands to fight hunger in Africa. According to the trio, no child deserves to go hungry .

Project launch date

The project is expected to be launched on the 19th of November via social media .

Project start date

The project will be implemented in phases. The first phase will start on the 01st of December and end on the 31st of December. This phase is targeting to bring Christmas to children who without this support will not be in position to get food.

The second phase of the project will start on the 10th of January 2021 and will run throughout the year. This phase will target less privileged children affected by Covid-19, orphans and other form of vulnerable children.

Planned activities

Activities of phase one will include:

1.     Food parcels distributions to helpless children

2.     Hosting of Christmas parties to serve children with food

Activities of phase two:

1.     Food parcels distributions

2.     Home visits

3.     Advocacy

4.     Setting up home and school gardens to grow vegetables, fruits and seasonal foods


Target beneficiaries and number of beneficiaries

The project is targeting starving children, child headed families, orphans, children from rural communities from poor families.

Phase one is expected to benefit 5000 children.

Phase two is expected to benefit at least 20,000 children.

Project Cost/Budget

Each child /family will receive food parcels worth $8 making it $24,000 for 3000 children.

Children Christmas parties for 2000 children will cost $600.

The total amount for phase one will cost $30000.

However, the number of beneficiaries will depend on availability of resources.

Phase two of the project is expected to cost $100,000.

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Leah from Africa, (https://twitter.com/NamugerwaLeah)
Licypriya from Asia (https://twitter.com/LicypriyaK) and
Lily from Europe (https://twitter.com/lillyspickup)
Alexandria from America (https://twitter.com/AlexandriaV2005)

Feel free to follow on twitter.

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With Mowomind, Anna and Nils Schnell met Leah on their #modernworktour. Since then we supported her and her generation through providing them with this gofundme page. 

Let's change the world to the better, let's support these young impressive initiative.

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