Daily Lunch: Heart for the Hungry (11 October 2019) - CHILDREN'S WISHING WELL
Founded in 2002, we started as a help desk for latchkey kids. The Founder built a team that offered advice to students who seemed lost and lacked family support. Today, we provide a broad range of assistance. We offer monthly groceries, lunch pocket money and cooked dinners. Our signature program, Grant-A-Wish, helps needy students with necessities for education, health and basic living. We have thus provided spectacles, hearing aids, sports shoes or equipment, book vouchers and household items. Even fumigation services.
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15 Oct Daily Lunch: Heart for the Hungry (11 October 2019)

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[Heart for the Hungry]

A simple snack for one is a hearty meal to another.

We started this year with attempting to feed all our children who come in hungry after school. Many of our children come in famished for their tuition after school. Some of them resort to eating instant noodles every day because that is all they can afford while others go hungry till they go home for dinner. It is not fun when you are told to sit out during sports because you feel light-headed due to not having your lunch. Though all our beneficiaries are covered by the Strait Times School Pocket Money Fund, $2 is not enough to cover lunch, is it? The beneficiaries are only given extra money on the days they stay back in school for extra classes or CCA.

It is impossible to function on an empty stomach. Concentration wanes, with hunger and exhaustion, overtakes as the afternoon progresses. The lack of essential nutrients can have an irreversible impact on the child’s overall development, including delayed motor development and impaired cognitive function, leading to poor school performance. It is critical for us to invest in the human and cognitive development of our children.

As we did not have any budget allocated for this initiative, we got down to raising funds. While at it, we provided simple sandwiches for our children on a daily basis. We had tuna mayo sandwiches on Tuesdays and Thursdays and peanut butter and Kaya sandwiches on others.

With the help of some generous donors, we have been able to sustain the Daily Lunch program and have now started providing spaghetti twice a week.

On this happy note, we would like to share our blessings. We welcome children from the neighbourhood who are not on our Children Enrichment Programme to come and eat with us. Come on down to our centre at Blk 365 Clementi Avenue 2 #01-503 Singapore 120365 and have lunch with us on weekdays from 1pm on.

Donations are encouraged to continue a consistent lunch routine for our children every school day. Food shouldn’t be out of reach for children. They shouldn’t have to worry where their next meal will come from. Your generosity can change that.

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