Let’s examine the current model of food distribution to the poor, which involves many challenges:
- Time to deliver food
- Shelf life of food
- No refrigeration
- Cost of storage
- Cost of acquiring goods and transport
- Finding 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 of these problems with the existing funds that have already been raised but just do it in a new way that addresses these issues at the core? How?
What if we used this money instead to establish hen farms and agriculture in schools and teach children how to do that? Let’s see what happens:
- Children learn how to grow their own food and are able to do it for life.
- They take food home fresh every day for themselves and any families they know around them that are in need.
- The food has more nutrition as it is taken home fresh.
- No storage or refrigeration is needed.
- The 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, allowing them to feed their families instead of being dependent.
- Children become teachers for their families as they help them grow their own food at home.
- There is a change in the situation as food becomes plentiful, farms become plentiful, people gain a skill to feed themselves, and 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, as a result, the country level.
