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FOOD PROGRAM
Globally, 1.9 billion people are victims of food insecurity. While some countries seem to be living above the average poverty line, moderate food insecurity remains a major issue across all regions, even high-income countries. Many people are starving – this awful fact is becoming a global pain. The high level of food insecurity in some impoverished countries worldwide has been instrumental to the higher rate of several life-threatening sicknesses and even premature death. This is worthy of serious concern!
According to statistics, one of every three persons needs very urgent food assistance. More than 49% of the people are malnourished, and over one billion people live in a situation categorize as an emergency.
In response to the global critical hunger emergency, Illuminating Lives Foundation has been operating against the life-threatening hunger crisis in diverse ways over the past several years. We have been making deliberate efforts to ensure that the hungry are well fed no matter the location or distance. To further solidify our commitment, we launched an efficient food security project to provide hundreds of thousands of hunger-stricken men, women, and children with healthy food and drinks every day. As the name implies, it’s easy to think that the program is centered on children. On the contrary, that’s far from the truth!
We have been feeding both men and women, children, and adults across many villages and remote areas in several countries. So far, it’s a God-given vision; we go many miles to put smiles on the face of the underprivileged. Feeding the nearly 3.7 million people affected by the torturing malnutrition is a great task, but God’s divine support through our kind donors and our unwavering commitment keep us going.
Our food program aims to help the government build sustainable systems that will deeply address the root causes of food insecurity and provide an adequate, consistent food supply to the people who cannot afford to feed. We are constantly making interventions to ensure that we relieve people in this time of emergency.
Food is one of the indispensable needs of people to stay healthy, both physically and mentally. Sadly, many underprivileged can hardly afford little meals for themselves and their families. In several countries where the poverty rate is high, many people strain a lot to get what to eat, and the only few that can manage to get food to eat fewer quality meals.
Illuminating Lives gives absolute attention to consistent food supply to the hunger-stricken people who cannot afford their daily meals. Our passion and desire are to see the hungry feeding like the rich in abundance. We organize this food program to eliminate malnutrition and premature death caused by chronic hunger and constant intake of unhealthy food substances – a good meal promotes healthy living! We feel a responsibility as many people of different ages keep dying of hunger, and we are filled with the passion for abolishing hunger. We feed up to tens of thousands of children per day.
Some key objectives that drive our food program include:
- To increase the availability of quality and timely meals for both young and old.
We are passionate about providing the best quality meals for the underprivileged who suffer from acute malnutrition or even absolute hunger. One of our major commitments is to alleviate people from poverty through an adequate and timely food supply. We frequently visit the most remote places that most people find it difficult to go to. Many of our volunteers help us distribute well-packaged raw and cooked food throughout the communities where hunger is high-flying.
- To improve the mental and physical stability of the underprivileged.
Malnutrition can make people develop several unfavorable health conditions. Lack of food can also affect human thinking, mood, and productivity. Eating good meals at the right time is one of the surest ways to decrease both children’s and adults’ prevailing mortality rates. Many pregnant women lost their babies to the chronic malnutrition crisis. In a country where families had to go for 2 – 3 days without food, there’s no limit to the lives hunger can claim in a few days. We don’t just give food. We give the best quality, tasty meals prepared under very strict hygienic conditions. We make people stay in sound health with sufficient food supply.
- To boost the productivity of the labor force.
We contribute to the nation’s economy through our food program by increasing its labor force’s productivity. When people have access to enough food, they work better and smarter. In a situation where about half of the population is starving, what would be the whole country’s productivity rate? We support the economy of many impoverished countries as we feed the countless number of people consistently.
- To reduce food wastage.
Our food program aims to save malnourished lives with sufficient food supply by encouraging those who live above the poverty line to feed the hungry. We encourage people who are financially buoyant and have sufficient food in their store to join us in the quest to eradicate hunger in the world. Some people in different communities waste food, neglecting that many have been starving for days. As an unrepentant advocate for the hungry, we make food wasters understand that the wasted foods can save many lives if they can look around them and give to the needy.
- To make the poor and the rich feel happy and better.
One of the greatest impacts of our food program is that it makes the underprivileged feel better. Many troubles are going on in the poor’s heart, which they can’t express most of the time. When hunger is out of poverty, poverty becomes tolerable. People become happy when there’s food in their belly. Besides, we also make our donors proud and feel fulfilled. When our donors realize how much impact and contributions they have made in saving other people’s lives, they feel happy and great. It makes one feel better knowing that you are making a difference.
- Providing cash-based food assistance to help families affected.
We provide monetary assistance to underprivileged families to purchase food in case of an emergency. This means that families can eat without waiting for the food that comes from our foundation alone. The cash-based food assistance is also aimed at helping families to attend to other financial issues that may arise anytime.