The COVID-19 pandemic that spread rapidly and extensively around the world since late 2019 has had profound negative implications for food security and nutrition especially in the rural and vulnerable communities of Kenya. We have witnessed not only a major disruption to food supply chains in the wake of lockdowns triggered by the global health crisis, but also a major global economic slowdown that has adversely affected the families ability to put food on the table. These crises have resulted in lower incomes and higher prices of some foods, putting food out of reach for many, and undermining the right to food and stalling efforts to meet Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: “Zero hunger.”
Due this persistent and existing gap, Seed of Love Foundation launched the Seed & Feed program to address the increasing hunger, starvation and malnutrition among families in the rural communities fueled by the pandemic. The program so far has seventy plus families enrolled where they receive monthly food supplies to supplement their locally grown & available foods.
This program has helped the families increase peace and harmony among them, improved lives as money used to be spent on food is now spent on meeting other basic needs in the families. There is increased mental stability among members of the families, zero hunger & Starvation among the families, zero malnutrition among the children and led to zero cases of child prostitution since young girls from some of these families used to engage in early sex in exchange for food and other basic social needs.
- To provide monthly food support to poor & vulnerable families in rural Kenya
- To fight malnutrition in Kenya’s rural villages through the Covid-19 outbreak.
- Improve the living conditions of vulnerable families in rural Kenyan villages.
- Improve access to basic needs among the vulnerable families in rural Kenya
- Families with no or little income earners
- Families with the elderly, single parents, widows & widowers as breadwinners
- Families with the physically challenged & living with HIV/AIDS as breadwinners
- Families that are not able to meet their basic needs
The families each receive a food box monthly containing the following:
- Maize
- Bars of soap
- Cooking oil
- Sugar
- Salt
- Tea leaves
- Toilet paper
- Rice
- Beans