In a cluster of mountain villages in Haiti, hundreds of children will learn to read, write and do mathematics today. They’ll also be fed a nutritious meal. For some, it will be the only meal they will get for the day.
“There have been days that I have not had something to eat,” says Sonel, a 9-year-old boy who is attending school this year for the first time in his life. “But now I eat at school.”
Sonel is one of more than 21,000 children Convoy of Hope is feeding each day through its feeding initiatives in Haiti, El Salvador, Kenya, the Philippines and other countries. In Haiti, he also represents one of the country’s fortunate children - he’s one who gets to attend school and have at least one warm meal per day.
Just outside of the school’s property, dozens of children dressed only in rags spend their days playing in the road or gazing through the fence at the children who get to be in school.
“More students want to come here, but we don’t have room,” says the principal of one of the schools where Convoy of Hope provides food. “We had to stop registering students. This area has very big needs.”
Indeed it does. However, through programs like One Day to Feed the World and by regularly supporting Convoy of Hope’s feeding initiatives, you can help ensure that more children throughout the world are known as the fortunate ones.
