Our Nutrition and Education Programs
Covid-19 Update
In March of 2020, the Kenyan government, like governments all over the world, put a moratorium on public meetings, including those of churches. The weekly church meeting is the primary way in which we feed children in the community. However, when it became clear that we could no longer host meals, we purchased a motorbike and began delivering cereal grains to needy families. These families look forward to the monthly deliveries of food, and it is our desire to keep doing this until the weekly feeding program can resume.
Victoria Watoto Schools
In January 2020, Victoria Watoto Fund opened a private, Christian primary school in the town of Mbita. Unfortunately, the Covid-19 pandemic quickly closed it down. We are happy to report that classes resumed in early January 2021, and we just completed 7 months of in-class teaching. Our PP2 class has now graduated to 1st grade.
To find out more, visit our VWS page.
Weekly Meals
*Please see Covid-19 update above.
Children in Mbita Point often go days without anything to eat, and thus suffer from malnutrition and disease at the worst, and struggle with paying attention and not falling asleep in school at the very least. Since August 2019, Victoria Watoto Fund has been feeding up to 120 children one hot, nutritious meal per week. A local church provides the kitchen and the manpower. Your funds provide the meals consisting of a starch like maize, proteins like mung beans or fish, and vegetables. These products are purchased locally, and therefore invested in the local economy.
Sustainable Food
Victoria Watoto Fund, a 501(c)3 nonprofit, desires to provide a living for people in the community and supplemental food for the nutrition program. Therefore, the next step in the program is to build greenhouses that will protect the crops from the local wildlife and will be irrigated by Lake Victoria. Residents of the community will be able to work in the greenhouses and sell the produce at market. VWS school children will learn important skills in how food can be produced through farming techniques like irrigation and composting.