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HUNGER identified as the greatest challenge in Bondeau.
A $12,000 purchase of rice and beans was successfully made in Miragoane (about 30 minutes from Bondeau) and is safely stored on the campus! Thanks to donors and the tremendous business skill of Pere Phanord (Priest-in-Charge at Bondeau) to find this much food available and to negotiate a bulk purchase.
This food will provide school lunches each day for the 380 students of Bon Samaritain School until the end of this school year in July. A small amount ($1200) of this purchase provided emergency food for the community that was distributed on Easter.
The refugees combined with the already hungry families in Bondeau who cannot afford the skyrocketing price of food, has produced an unprecedented level of hunger in the community. Pere faces desperate community members every day seeking food. He gives them small amounts of money from his own pocket as he is able because he has no food to give them. SFHP budgets and provides for school lunches but does not have the funding to provide food to the community.
The Annual Food Packing Event held at St Mark's in Palm Beach Gardens this year successfully packaged and boxed 75,000 meals specifically for school lunches. These rice & bean meals are nutritionally enhanced with soy, vitamins, and dried vegetables. The SFHP Food Team is working diligently exploring every option to ship the six pallets of boxed food to Bondeau. Please pray for this shipment to arrive by September when it will be needed for school lunches.
Your contributions are what make education and school lunches happen in Bondeau! THANK YOU for your gifts that bring hope and a brighter future to now 380 students of Bon Samaritain School.
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