Guatemala

It’s estimated that 40% of children in Guatemala suffer from malnutrition.

Many children at the Vergel 1 school in Ixtan don’t get breakfast and used to study on an empty stomach – until ActionAid and its local partner ACSS helped them benefit from a government lunch scheme by building six school kitchens, which now help to feed over 1,000 children.

As well as working directly with poor communities, your Big School Dinner event could also help us put pressure on local and national governments to provide children with nutritious meals and access to free education.

• £5 will provide nutritious porridge for an orphan in Malawi every day fro a year - sometimes the only guaranteed meal they receive.
• £10 could ensure that a child in Africa can get the rice, beans and maize they need for a whole week, enabling them to grow up strong and healthy.
• £60 could provide a nutritious meal for a street child, every night for a year at an ActionAid street shelter in Delhi, India.£60 could cover the cost of a special drip kit, which a family of orphans in Zimbabwe can use to irrigate their crops.
  

Malawi

Many AIDS orphans live on the streets where they suffer deprivation and abuse.

ActionAid supports the Chisomo Children’s Club which gives these children somewhere safe to go and reintegrates them into home and school life –

so they have a better chance of reaching their potential. It also provides hot food – just £40 could provide a week’s worth of nutritious porridge for 400 children. It’s often the only guaranteed meal they will get.