Let’s examine the current model of food distribution to the poor, which faces many challenges:
- Delivery time of food
- Shelf life of food
- Lack of refrigeration
- Storage costs
- Costs of acquiring goods and transportation
- Identifying and qualifying those in need
- Distributing food to those people
- No change in the situation – ongoing dependence
What if we could address all these issues using the existing funds already raised but implement a new approach that resolves these problems at their core? How?
What if we used this money to establish hen farms and agriculture in schools and teach children how to manage them? Let’s explore the potential outcomes:
- Children learn to grow their own food and sustain this skill for life.
- They bring fresh food home daily for themselves and families in need around them.
- The food is more nutritious as it is fresh.
- No need for storage or refrigeration.
- Children become the delivery mechanism and can identify those in need.
- Once they learn, students receive starter packs to replicate this at home, reducing dependency.
- Children teach their families to grow food at home.
- The situation changes as food becomes abundant, farms flourish, people gain skills to feed themselves, and communities learn self-reliance.
- Children learn the value of hard work, entrepreneurship, and self-sufficiency, fostering pride in their achievements.
- This model is scalable at community, regional, and national levels.
