Healthy Meals for a Street-Child for a month; £72 (£17 for a week)
Margarita’s story...
Margarita was a street girl who often used to beg outside restaurants and cafes in Guatemala City. She was grateful for any leftover chicken and chips and whatever anyone gave her. When the street team visited her, they would bring some food, just soup and a roll but one day the street team told her they were taking her out for a meal.
She couldn’t believe it, she felt like a princess going into the restaurant like one of the rich people and eating to her heart’s content. Being treated with dignity like this helped her realise her value as a person and to build up the determination to leave behind street life, moving to the hostel and joining one of the homes.
Jamie Oliver has become the patron saint of school meals of late. It was bizarre to see the children & parents' reactions when he started changing things in the school he was in during his TV series. Apparently there were parents up-in-arms about the change in diet (to a healthy one?!) and they'd come to the school gates at lunchtimes with a MacDonald's for their little darlings to make up for all those awful vegetables and things, and presumably also to make sure that their kids remained as obese by the end of the day as they were in the morning.
Jamie's efforts might have been more appreciated by the children that Toybox works with. Living as a scavenger isn't easy - and many of the children have solvent or drug addictions which they, as addicts, will prioritise over getting hold of food. Malnutrition is the obvious product of this, for many - and if you give me this present {scroll to 3} it's not just shouting a dinner, it's feeding a child who really needs it for a whole month (or a week for £17).
[ Toybox Charity, gifts for a street-child, www.toyboxcharity.org.uk ]
Margarita was a street girl who often used to beg outside restaurants and cafes in Guatemala City. She was grateful for any leftover chicken and chips and whatever anyone gave her. When the street team visited her, they would bring some food, just soup and a roll but one day the street team told her they were taking her out for a meal.
She couldn’t believe it, she felt like a princess going into the restaurant like one of the rich people and eating to her heart’s content. Being treated with dignity like this helped her realise her value as a person and to build up the determination to leave behind street life, moving to the hostel and joining one of the homes.
Jamie Oliver has become the patron saint of school meals of late. It was bizarre to see the children & parents' reactions when he started changing things in the school he was in during his TV series. Apparently there were parents up-in-arms about the change in diet (to a healthy one?!) and they'd come to the school gates at lunchtimes with a MacDonald's for their little darlings to make up for all those awful vegetables and things, and presumably also to make sure that their kids remained as obese by the end of the day as they were in the morning.Jamie's efforts might have been more appreciated by the children that Toybox works with. Living as a scavenger isn't easy - and many of the children have solvent or drug addictions which they, as addicts, will prioritise over getting hold of food. Malnutrition is the obvious product of this, for many - and if you give me this present {scroll to 3} it's not just shouting a dinner, it's feeding a child who really needs it for a whole month (or a week for £17).
[ Toybox Charity, gifts for a street-child, www.toyboxcharity.org.uk ]
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