Ngong Road Children’s Foundation’s main priority in our COVID-19 response is to focus on family food aid in Nairobi. We are calling this new initiative Food from Friends. In the course of a normal April, our program provides students with breakfast and lunch each weekday while they are on break from school as well as a hearty lunch on Saturdays during Saturday Program. We are no longer conducting these programs due to government directives on social distancing and avoiding gatherings. The children are at home with their families, many of whom are no longer working.
We have been running the Food from Friends project where funds gathered are used to purchase food packages for families. We have approximately 300 families dependent on our program. Each food packet contains 1 kg of beans 2kg of rice, 4kg of maize flour, and 500g of cooking fat. In the last two weeks, we have been able to issue food aid to around 200 families among which 72 of the neediest families have received food packets twice. 75% of our families have 3-5 people in a household and the food pack we give can only last them for a week. We are looking at being able to provide larger quantities of food that would last a family a month, thus minimizing the movements of parents coming for food aid every week.
Families that have received food have shared that they consider themselves so lucky to be part of this organization and so thankful for the food aid support.
We thank our donors and well-wishers for your commitment to providing Food from Friends. We are in this together and we shall overcome. Stay safe.
Kelvin Thuku
Program Manager
Ngong Road Children’s Foundation
Cindy Espolt says
Dear Kelvin and staff of Ngong Road,
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you for all you are doing there in Nairobi. As a new sponsor, I am thrilled to see how you and your colleagues are handling this crisis and am hopeful that all families are being able to get the food they need to get through this unprecedented time in our world. Our World being the key phrase, we must all work together. I am proud and honored to have become a part of this wonderful organization when I did. Please, if you see or talk to the families of Joseph and Faith, please pass on my deep concern and love for them. I pray they are doing alright and I promise to continue doing what I can from here to help. God bless you all!