User:IgorMoskvich/Lunches for Learning

Lunches for Learning, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2004 and incorporated in 2005 by Ron Hicks. The Lunches for Learning organization is also listed as an incorporated entity in the republic of Honduras, where it predominantly operates. The scope of the Lunches for Learning program is to help break the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras by providing nutrition and nutritional supplements to the impoverished children in public schools and kindergartens. The primary objective of the program is to encourage children, who would otherwise have to leave school to seek food, to attend school and receive a basic six-grade academic education (adequate in exponentially increasing the chances of a decent future above the poverty level for an individual in Honduras). In exchange for the children attending school, Lunches for Learning provides and supplements a daily lunch for elementary school children by utilizing the cooperative efforts of individual contributors, corporate sponsorship, and the government of Honduras. Currently, the Lunches for Learning program accommodates 21 schools and 1,256 children. Lunches for Learning, Inc is entirely staffed by volunteers in the Unites States, and the only employees of the program are Honduran citizens who serve in providing essential management and administration of the program. Thus, administration/overhead costs are very low. In addition to its main goal, Lunches for Learning also helps facilitate the efforts of the World Food Program (WFP) and the Family Allowance Program (PRAF) with activities ranging from building hand-dug water-wells to building kitchens to helping transport legumes, corn, rice, and cooking oil necessary for producing meals.