My parents feed me after every 2 hours. 811 million people go to bed hungry every night. In 2016 WHO report 15,000 children under age of five died of hunger. In Bangladesh one in two children is chronically undernourished. 33% death of children under 5 is caused by undernutrition. In Canada 1.2 million children living in food-insecure households. That's 16% Children in Alberta. 50,000 kids in Calgary suffer every day from not having enough to eat.
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If you can read all these facts. You are not among the 14% people worldwide who can't to read or write. Around 160 million people in Bangladesh is illiterate. 18% Children dropout of school before completion of primary level. In 2019 4.3% children (age 5 to 14) in Bangladesh engage in exploitative work to support their families. And earns less than $2/day. in June 2021 total worldwide child labour increased to 160 million.
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In Bangladesh, we throw away an unbelievable amount of perfectly edible food every day. At the same time, a growing number of Bangladeshi find themselves struggling to make ends meet. In the course of a year, around 3.6 million Bangladesh find themselves unable to afford enough food to feed themselves or their families. For more than 1 million of these people, this is not a one-off, but a regular occurrence. The reasons behind this are complicated, but the bottom line isn’t – in short: we throw good food away while people go hungry. That doesn’t make sense.
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We feed kids every day, kids that are in school and kids that are at-home learning. Everything we do is possible thanks to the community, including volunteers, donors, and partners. Every day, volunteers come together and prepare healthy lunches that are delivered to kids in school; some volunteers come to our central kitchen, while others go to one of the 24 community groups that are spread throughout the city. Corporate groups, restaurants, individuals, all of us get together with one purpose in mind: to send healthy lunches to kids in their community. We are funded by people like you, corporations, small businesses, and everyone that cares about feeding kids in our city.
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Bangladesh has an impressive 44% literacy rate, which undoubtedly is a big success of the present Government’s visionary education policy. Still, there exist some major areas of development concerning the national primary education system. These include: poverty and rising inequality, widening disparities in education opportunities and facilities, poor class-attendance and alarming dropout-rates, lack of skilled teachers, lack of scientific curriculum, high cost of school-education, imposition of newer systems of education without proper teachers-training programs, etc.
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SPIRIT NORTHSpirit North is a national charitable organization that uses land-based activities to improve the health and well-being of Indigenous youth, empowering them to become unstoppable in sport, school and life. Through the transformative power of sport and play, our participants learn important lessons, discover untold potential and build the confidence and courage needed to overcome the hardships Indigenous youth often face.
Working in partnership with schools and communities, our active, participation-based programs are designed to make Indigenous youth feel unstoppable, helping them develop skills that improve their performance in the classroom and deepen their connection to their communities. |
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