Nutrition In Haiti
Providing Food In Haiti
10.5 million meals have been provided to the people in Haiti since 2012.
The people in Haiti live on $2.00 per day. In remote Haiti things are harder. With the scarcity of clean water, it has been difficult to feed their animals and grow vegetables and fruits. Children have a hard time concentrating in school because of hunger pains.
BNF has developed a hot lunch food program to the schools near the wells that we have built.
Beginnings
One year after the foundation began its work in Haiti, Barco’s Nightingales Foundation learned of an opportunity to provide daily hot lunches for 600 school children in Anse-A-Pitres, where we built our first solar water well.We now provide hot lunches for 75 schools, 3 orphanages and 1 refugee camp – 12,500 students and teachers.
Lunch Program
Barco’s Nightingales Foundation’s lunch program is daily through the school year. The students and teachers are fed a lunch of pasta with sauce and sausage. Many of the cooks have children who attend the school. Receiving a wage from BNF, enables them to care for their families.
Long Term Solutions
We are constantly looking into other options and how we can provide for more schools. Providing work as cooks for many of the parents allows them to send their kids to school and provide for their families.
Location
The schools that we provide lunches for, are in villages near the solar water wells that we have built. One of the refugee camps that we initially helped has now turned into a community
Since the world pandemic has hit us all, the schools in Haiti were closed. This prevented us in providing lunches to the children.We are so blessed by our BNF family in Haiti. They created a way to feed 6000 families. Since April, Fermin Perez, Delince Cenat and their family and friends have driven over rough terrain as there are no roads to these villages, to deliver food to the children and their families.