We are in the middle of our 3-week winter school holiday in Paarl.
Here, like many other rural communities, the reality is that many of the children in our most needy communities often receive their most substantial meal through their government (or private) sponsored meal program at school.
Holiday times present the biggest threat to the nutrition of these hundreds of undernourished children.
FACED stands for
Feed
A Child
Every
Day.
The acronym was coined when key leaders in the Paarl community had a series of discussions last year revolving around community needs...particularly for children...during the World Cup. Monte Christo Miqlat decided that one of our main areas of focus needed to be food, and so we piloted a holiday feeding program during that longer World Cup holiday.
The
program was so well received, that we have worked to raise funds to continue offering food during the normal school holidays in 2011.
Thanks to World Emergency Relief-Holland, Pioneer Foods and other private funders we are feeding over 1,800 children per day, 5 days a week during
this school holiday (June 27th-July 15th) at 8 different community sites. We are blessed to be living out the vision of our Community Nutrition program...
No child in our community goes to bed hungry.
We are in the middle of our 3-week winter school holiday in Paarl. 
Here, like many other rural communities, the reality is that many of the children in our most needy communities often receive their most substantial meal through their government (or private) sponsored meal program at school. Holiday times present the biggest threat to the nutrition of these hundreds of undernourished children. FACED stands for Feed A Child Every Day. The acronym was coined when key leaders in the Paarl community had a series of discussions last year revolving around community needs...particularly for children...during the World Cup. Monte Christo Miqlat decided that one of our main areas of focus needed to be food, and so we piloted a holiday feeding program during that longer World Cup holiday. The 
program was so well received, that we have worked to raise funds to continue offering food during the normal school holidays in 2011. Thanks to World Emergency Relief-Holland, Pioneer Foods and other private funders we are feeding over 1,800 children per day, 5 days a week during this school holiday (June 27th-July 15th) at 8 different community sites. We are blessed to be living out the vision of our Community Nutrition program...No child in our community goes to bed hungry.
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