Imagine sending your child to school without breakfast. This is the reality for many parents in Ethiopia. Due to finances, BCI Academy hasn’t been able to provide breakfast or lunch to the students; and there is no free or reduced lunch program offered by the government of Ethiopia like there is here in America.
Two of the BCI Canada board members are in Ethiopia right now and they have been testing a breakfast feeding program for the past three weeks. They were only able to choose 12 children out of the nearly 80 children from the academy to participate in this feeding program. They chose 12 of the most neediest kids (but let’s be honest here, they are all needy and worthy of such a program) and had them come to school early and they have been feeding them breakfast for the past three weeks. They have seen such positive results from these children that they desperately want to continue this program.
Of course, they need the finances to be able to do this. To continue feeding these children they need $140/mth. That is approximately $0.58 a day per child. Yep, it only takes roughly 58 cents to feed a child breakfast for one day!
I ask that you prayerfully consider supporting this program. All of these children need a good meal but it is most dire because a lot of the children in the BCI program are HIV positive and while they have access to free retroviral medication from the Ethiopian government they are in desperate need of adequate nutrition to keep them healthy. . .more so than an HIV negative child.
Please pray about supporting this program on a monthly basis or even a one-time gift. All tax-deductible donations can be mailed to:
Blessing the Children International
2267 Fraser Rd
Kawkawlin, MI 48631
Please include “Breakfast Feeding Program” on the memo line of your check.
I thank you so much in advance for your support of this worthy cause.
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