Let's consider the current model of food distribution to the poor, which involves several challenges:
- Time to deliver food
- Shelf life of food
- No refrigeration
- Cost of storage
- Cost of acquiring goods and transport
- Identifying and qualifying the people who need help
- Distributing the food to those people
- No change in the situation – endless dependence
What if we could solve all these problems using the funds already raised, but in a new way that addresses these issues at their core? How?
What if we used this money to establish hen farms and agriculture in schools and taught children how to do that? Let's see what happens:
- Children learn how to grow their own food and have the ability to do it for life.
- They take fresh food home every day for themselves and any families they know who are in need.
- The food has more nutrition as it is taken home fresh.
- No storage or refrigeration is needed.
- Children become the delivery mechanism and can identify those in need.
- After learning, students can receive a starter pack to do the same at home, enabling them to feed their families instead of being dependent.
- Children become the teachers for their families as they help them grow their own food at home.
- The situation changes as food becomes plentiful, farms become plentiful, people gain a skill to feed themselves, and they learn to care for the community themselves.
- Children learn the value of hard work, entrepreneurship, and how to be self-sufficient and proud of their work.
- This model is scalable across a country and across countries as it works at the community level, regional level, and, consequently, the country level.
