Sacampana and Chioya

It was wonderful working with Food for the Hungry in the rural areas of Sacampana and Chioya.  We conducted observations and presented two seminars, one for each school.  Sacampana had five teachers for Kindergarten through sixth grade.  There were very few textbooks in each classroom, many times the teacher had the only textbook in the room.  Chioya has 11 teachers and a director for the school.  The government just finished a new building one month ago that half of the school has moved into, the other half will remain in the old part of the school.  Here the teachers have textbooks for each child in most subject areas.

Sacampana is a new community that FH is moving into.  They have only been there for less than one year but yet you can see that change is beginning to happen.  The woman have begun a community garden, where they are learning how to plant better vegetables for their families.  Once they have worked in that garden for a year, then they receive seeds of their own. Food for the Hungry is also working with the mothers to weigh and measure the growth of the children ages 0-5.  They are tracking the progress of growth and then following up when growth is not shown.  This is the way that they can monitor change in behavior and attitudes with chronic malnutrition.

Chioya is a community that FH has been working in for a few years now.  They have developed a Child Transformation Program with most of the children already having been sponsored.  There are currently 18 families that are building a greenhouse that will enable them to have a longer growing season and a larger variety of vegetables harvested.  The sides of the greenhouse will allow for air movement while blocking out all bacteria.  They will have a decontamination area for shoes before entering the greenhouse so they won't cross contaminate the soil.  We ate at the home of one of the families involved in the agricultural project.  It was very humbling to hear them share how God was helping them in this process so they can change the lives of their children AND their community.  May God bless these families and allow the harvest to be plentiful to glorify HIS name.