Feeding Nations Through Education

Results: 1. 382 families are equipped and their extended relatives and neighbors (over 200,000 people) are out of extreme poverty through our Care Package Program. 2. Over 145,000 people now drink clean water every day from our wells across 16 large villages. 3. 1,746 women are small business owners due to our Women Microloan Program. 4. As a direct result of all our programs, over 1,300 children (including the ones at our campus) are schooled and would not have the opportunity otherwise. 5. Construction on 4 blocks of students’ dorms is completed. 6. School and community health clinic construction is almost completed. We received donations of used medical equipment and supplies shipped in a 40ft storage container that is ready to be offloaded and set up in the clinic. 7. Our school created jobs for 19 people including the principal, administrator and teachers. The impact of a full-time job in Africa goes far beyond the individual. 8. Over 7,500 people received eyecare and eyewear through our eye care clinic. 9. Over 309 people received dental care for the first time in their lives. 10. The social, economic and spiritual impact continues to be replicated across the country.

Target demographics: Families, Women and girls, Children and youth, Economically disadvantaged people, Adults

Direct beneficiaries per year: 1. Through the Care Package Program: 50 additional families are out of poverty, starvation, and can afford their children's education, 26,200 community members benefited from excess crops available at local markets 2. Through the Women Microloan Program: 656 additional Women are successful entrepreneurs and their 7,872 family members are no longer in poverty 3. Through the Clean Water Well Program: 145,000 people continue to have access to clean drinking water 4. Over 1,000 children are in school as a direct result of all the programs enabling families to afford their children's education

Geographic areas served: Burkina Faso, West Africa

Programs: 1. Care Package Program. Providing farming equipment to combat extreme poverty, Feeding Nations Through Education developed a Care Package Program where recipient village families receive a pair of vaccinated bulls, a plow, and training in sustainable agriculture. They are empowered and able to farm more acreage than they can with hand held hoes. They are enabled to farm higher value crops such as sesame. Surplus crops are produced: crops are sold at local markets making food more available in the local economy, and families no longer starve and are able to afford their children's education. After 5 years, families sell older bulls and with the proceeds buy younger bulls for their farm, then pay it forward to another family. We are teaching the receiver to be a giver. 2. Women Microloan Program. Empowering Women Entrepreneurs. We believe women are the backbone of the family so we developed a program that gives women a $100 envelope that affords them the opportunity to begin their own handcrafted business. Each recipient is put into a support group and trained on basic business principals. Often these women become the bread winners of their families. After a year each women has built their business up enough to further invest in their business and pay it forward to the next women in line. As the cycle continues, more and more women are empowered and able to support their children’s education. 3. Clean Water Wells. Investing in their long term health. Feeding Nations Through Education drills clean water wells in remote villages. Providing access to clean water where the need is the greatest. Our wells are drilled deep enough to ensure they tap into the cleanest drinking water and never run dry. Additionally, locals are trained how to maintain the well. 4. Education. By equipping families with our Care Package, Women Microloan and providing them with Clean Water Wells, more and more families can afford to send their children to school. To address the need for access to education, we built a school in the middle of the country making it easier for all to access. International School Barkwende (ISB) prepares children for higher education and to become change makers in their communities. Currently, ISB teaches 7th-10th graders. We have a computer lab, cafeteria, administrative offices, a student health clinic, and dormitories under construction. Not only are we educating the next generation, we are also creating much needed jobs in the local economy.