[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content” css=”.vc_custom_1612234124183{margin-top: -150px !important;padding-top: 200px !important;padding-bottom: 200px !important;background-color: #2faeee !important;}”][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_single_image image=”1350″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_column_text]Food is the norm in the Western World, but not so in India. Your $10 per month donation, about what you might spend on a Starbucks for a day, could feed several families.

To ensure the children are able to stay in school and learn as best as they can, our request for financial support also includes food for the students and their families. This is a unique village and culture, one where the children are taught to earn money by begging. This affects even the smallest children as I witnessed on my trip to the region in February 2020. The children are cute, and are taught how to appeal to foreigners on vacation as they are stopped at a light,  or visiting a monument. Perhaps you have visited India and seen this first hand?  This is the only thing these children know or will ever know, unless we stop looking away and do something about it.

Providing for the students and their families serves a two-fold purpose. First, it gives the student much needed nutrition during the day as they are in school for the first time and absorbing so many new things they are being taught. Secondly, if we feed the families as well as the students, there is less likelihood that the parents will remove the children from school because without the child’s income, the family will not be fed.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]

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