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The founder of Food For Kidz, John, pictured in the above left picture, went on a two week mission trip to Africa in February with Mission Link.  During his time in Uganda he helped provide medical care for children and visit various villages and schools. It has been fourteen years since his last trip to Uganda, and during his time there last month he was able to reconnect with a young lady whom he met and helped during his first trip who was only four years old at that time.  Pictured below,  the deaf ministry in Kamuli, will be receiving new bed frames and 30 mattresses and 30 sheet sets with the help of our funding.

Before now, St. John’s Mwongeti Village in Kenya has never had its own medical clinic. With a population of approximately 6,000 residents, people were forced to walk an hour to get to the closest medical facility. All that will change within about a month’s time, as the village welcomes its first Dispensary (the local term for medical clinic). Food For Kidz -Stewart MN is pleased to have had a hand in this life-changing project.

The Excitement is Building!

Teaming up to make this a reality is a group of people in St. John’s Mwongeti Village and friends in the United States who brought together Food For Kidz, the Bergquist Foundation, Hutchinson Rotary, Kino Rotary, and Rotary International. A little over a year ago, a multi-use building called the Village Market was built to house a community library and maze mill. With space remaining in the building, the vision of a medical clinic continued to take shape. Food for Kidz donated $5,500 to purchase instrumentation and supplies for the Dispensary. The Rotary Clubs donated funds and secured a matching grant to purchase medical equipment and furnishings for the Dispensary. With the electrical and water systems complete, an incinerator installed and a latrine built, the Dispensary just erected its signage letting the villagers know it soon would be open.

When the funds arrive in the next few days, the local project manager in St. John’s Mwongeti Village will oversee the completion of the Level 1 clinic, and it should open within a month. An RN will staff the clinic, until growth is established and Level 2 status will allow for their equivalent of a Physicians Assistant to join the staff.

St. John’s Mwongeti Village: Past and Future

The vision for advancing this community continues, as a pharmacy is planned next and hopefully staffed with a Pharmacist. Food For Kidz has a history of helping this village grow through charitable donations dating back to the construction of the Village Market housing the library and maze mill. We donated funds for the mill and shipped 1,800 books to stock the library. Today, people come from neighboring villages to read, research, and use the library space and books.Women are able to mill maze without walking over 2 hours to do so!

Food for Kidz has officially partnered up with Agape Ministries in Othello Washington expanding their reach to deliver meals to central Washington.

This new partnership will help get nutritious meals to the smaller communities that are struggling with hunger. Agape already reaches out towards the Canadian border and overseas to their Ministry in the Philippines. Continuing to grow here will allow us to take care of those locally as well as planning to ship overseas.

After seeing what Food for Kidz is all about and seeing that we are taking a bite out of hunger they have asked us to partner up with them to help grow with them in our community.

As of July 1 our new warehouse will be in Eastpoint’s 76,000 square-foot building which encompasses three churches as well as our new warehouse. This new warehouse and packing facility will allow us to create an unlimited amount of meals to send out to food banks, Schools, churches and those in need.

Beginning July 12 we will offer Meal Packing at this location.

Please join us or donate which will allow us to continue to create meals even if you can’t make it.

Our goal is to get food to kids, families and those in need.

After months of planning and anticipation on June 1, 2018, Food For Kidz opened a Spokane, Washington office and warehouse! This new secondary location will be used to promote, organize, create and service meal packing events around the Spokane, WA and surrounding areas.

Food for Kidz mission is to bring awareness of hunger to the community

We bring awareness by using education and involving others in the participation of packing nutritious meals then distributing them to local food banks, schools and charities.