Feeding program
The vast majority of students at Agape Home Center Academy come from poverty-stricken families where food is often hard to come by. Therefore, it is among our highest priorities to ensure that the children are given one solid meal per day. Every day from Monday to Friday, all students are served porridge in the morning and a healthy lunch in the afternoon. The feeding program also runs on the weekends for other members of the community, sometimes up to 400 people.
Before the post-election violence at the end of 2007 and beginning of 2008, Agape was able to get food for the program free of charge from Feed the Children. However, their services have since been transferred to the people who were displaced as a result of this violence. Therefore, Agape has had to fund the program with the very inadequate income from school fees and donations made by volunteers and other well-wishers.
Below is a glimpse of how our feeding program looks like:
Porridge flour – 10Kg per day X 7Days = 70 kg per week
(1kg @ ksh 50.oo x 70kg = ksh 3,500.oo per wek)
Sugar - 3 Kg per day X 7Day = 21 kg per week
( 1kg @ ksh100 .oo X 21kgs =ksh 2,100.oo per week)
Maize flour - 30Kg per day X 7Day = 210 kg per week
(1kg @ ksh 60.oo X 210kg = ksh 12,600.oo per week)
Maize - 15kg per day X 7Day = 105 Kg per week
( 1kg @ ksh50 .oo X 105kg = ksh 5,250.oo per week)
Beans - 20kg per day X 7Day = 140 Kg per week
( 1kg @ ksh80 .oo X 140 kgs = ksh 11,200.oo per week)
Cooking fat - 1kg per day X 7Day = 7Kg per week
(1kg @ ksh150.oo X 7kgs =ksh 1,050.oo per week)
Rice - 25kg per day X 7Day = 175kg per week
(1kg @ ksh 80.oo X 175kgs = ksh 14,000.oo per week)
Salt - 1kg per day X 7 Day = 7Kg per week
( 1kg @ ksh 20.oo X 7 kg = ksh 140.oo per week)