Let’s take the existing model of food distribution to the poor which involves lots of challenges:
- Time to delivery of food
- Shelf life of food
- No refrigeration
- Cost of storage
- Cost of acquiring goods and transport
- Finding and qualifying the people that need help
- Distributing the food to those people
- No change in the situation – endless dependence
What if we could solve all of these problems with the existing funds that have already been raised but just do it in a new way that fixes these problems at the core? How?
What if we took this money and instead used it to put hen farms and agriculture into the schools and teach children how to do that? Hmm… let’s see what happens:
- Children learn how to grow their own food and are able to do it for life.
- They take food home fresh every day for them and any families that they know around them that are in need.
- The food has more nutrition as it is taken home fresh.
- There is no storage or refrigeration needed.
- The children become the delivery mechanism and are able to take care of finding those in need.
- After they learn, students can get a starter pack to do the same at home so they can feed their families instead of being dependent.
- The children become the teachers for the family as they help the family grow their own food at home.
- There is a change in the situation as food becomes plentiful, farms become plentiful, people have a skill to feed themselves, and learn to take care of the community themselves.
- Children learn what it means to work hard, learn entrepreneurship, and how to be self-sufficient and proud of their work.
- This model is scalable across a country and across countries as it works at the community level, regional level, and, as a result, the country level.
