Yvone Nancy Awino, 11, carries a slice of bread on the road from her family home in Konjiko village in Siaya County, western Kenya, May 1, 2019. Enter into Lent by reading her story... Yvone is one of 7 grandchildren of Eliakim Dude, 62, and his wife Patricia, 54, whose youngest daughter Gaudencia, 25, has been part of a Catholic Relief Services initiative Integrated Mothers and Babies Course IMBC program which is a pre-program for Early Childhood Development ECD. Guadencia is now a lead mother, checking on the other mothers to make sure that they are practicing what they learn in their group. Guadencia’s whole family has noticed improved nutrition and sanitation practices. They now diversify their diet, plant different crops, keep eggs to eat not sell, all resulting more energy to work and for the kids to attend school.
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Enter into Lent by reading her story... Gaudencia 25, makes beans for the family's seven children at their home in Konjiko village in Siaya County, western Kenya where she lives with her parents Eliakim Dude, 62, and wife Patricia, 54, May 1, 2019. Gaudencia has been part of a Catholic Relief Services initiative Integrated Mothers and Babies Course IMBC program which is a pre-program for Early Childhood Development ECD. She is now a lead mother, checking on the other mothers to make sure that they are practicing what they learn in their group. Guadencia’s whole family has noticed improved nutrition and sanitation practices. They now diversify their diet, plant different crops, keep eggs to eat not sell, all resulting more energy to work and for the kids to attend school.
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Enter into Lent by reading her story... Gaudencia 25, with her 1.5 year old daughter Asha Natasha Adhiambo outside the family home in Konjiko village in Siaya County, western Kenya where she lives with her parents Eliakim Dude, 62, and wife Patricia, 54, April 30, 2019. Gaudencia has been part of a Catholic Relief Services initiative Integrated Mothers and Babies Course IMBC program which is a pre-program for Early Childhood Development ECD. She is now a lead mother, checking on the other mothers to make sure that they are practicing what they learn in their group. Guadencia’s whole family has noticed improved nutrition and sanitation practices. They now diversify their diet, plant different crops, keep eggs to eat not sell, all resulting more energy to work and for the kids to attend school.
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Enter into Lent by reading her story... DREAMER. Portrait of María Ana Gómez Pérez, 16, a student from José Suazo Córdova School in San Francisco de Opalaca municipality, Intibucá Honduras. Her teachers describe her as a good student who wants to keep studying. She dreams of becoming a nurse: “To help my community and my family to get out of poverty”. She is a beneficiary of Catholic Relief Services' Food For Education Program. She comes from a family that lives in extreme poverty conditions and her education might not be assured. The program has helped her and her brothers to get a daily meal and in this way help their family’s economy that sometimes eat only once a day. Through the FFE project, CRS and its partners seek to improve school attendance and literacy among school-age children in all 17 municipalities in Intibucá. Approximately 53,000 children in pre-school through 9th grade receive daily school meals and the project provides school supplies to those children most in need. This assistance is key to increasing access to education. Parents and community members are engaged in a number of activities that support education, such as school infrastructure improvements, organizing transportation, and assisting with school meal preparation. The project also provides nutrition and hygiene training and works with parents to promote the value of a quality education. Additionally, to ensure a quality education is received, the FFE project provides training to teachers and school administrators on effective instruction and school management techniques. Volunteer substitute teachers also receive training to ensure more consistent attendance of a qualified instructor in the classroom.
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Enter into Lent by reading their story...
Gomez Pérez Family Portrait. From Left to right. María Ana Gómez Pérez, 16, Marcos Daniel Gómez Pérez, 6, Juan Manuel Gómez Pérez, 2, María Demetria Pérez, 43, Dinora Marlene Pérez, 4, Cristobal Gómez, 52, Denis Nahum Gómez Pérez, 6. They live in El Pinal, San Francisco de Opalapa municipality, Intibucá, Honduras. They live and cook in the small house behind them, only around 4 x 6 meters. They live in extreme poverty conditions. Three of the Gómez Pérez kids are beneficiaries of Catholic Relief Services' Food For Education Program that gives food from USDA. This meal makes a huge difference for Cristobal’s family. They usually eat one time a day. And having meal for their kids every school day helps them thrive. Through the FFE project, CRS and its partners seek to improve school attendance and literacy among school-age children in all 17 municipalities in Intibucá. Approximately 53,000 children in pre-school through 9th grade receive daily school meals and the project provides school supplies to those children most in need. This assistance is key to increasing access to education. Parents and community members are engaged in a number of activities that support education, such as school infrastructure improvements, organizing transportation, and assisting with school meal preparation. The project also provides nutrition and hygiene training and works with parents to promote the value of a quality education. Additionally, to ensure a quality education is received, the FFE project provides training to teachers and school administrators on effective instruction and school management techniques. Volunteer substitute teachers also receive training to ensure more consistent attendance of a qualified instructor in the classroom. Donate to CRS to help the Gomez Perez family and many others. |
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Portraits of María Ana Gómez Perez, 16, seen at her family bean parcel. María dreams to become a nurse and help her family get out of poverty, She is one of the best in her class and is willing even to work nearby city La Esperanza to full fill her dream. Her parents Cristobal and María Demetria don’t know if they are going to have the money to keep her at high school when she finishes her 9th grade. She lives in poverty stricken El Pinal village in San Francisco de Opalaca, Intibucá Honduras. She is a beneficiary of the CRS Food for Education program that gives her and her two brothers Denis and Marcos a meal every school day. This meal makes a huge difference in her family that eat usually one time a day. The family of seven depends only on the work of 50 year old Cristobal Gómez, her father. Through the FFE project, CRS and its partners seek to improve school attendance and literacy among school-age children in all 17 municipalities in Intibucá. Approximately 53,000 children in pre-school through 9th grade receive daily school meals and the project provides school supplies to those children most in need. This assistance is key to increasing access to education. Parents and community members are engaged in a number of activities that support education, such as school infrastructure improvements, organizing transportation, and assisting with school meal preparation. The project also provides nutrition and hygiene training and works with parents to promote the value of a quality education. Additionally, to ensure a quality education is received, the FFE project provides training to teachers and school administrators on effective instruction and school management techniques. Volunteer substitute teachers also receive training to ensure more consistent attendance of a qualified instructor in the classroom.
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Nguyen Thi Trinh (Born 2007, 12 years old) and her mother, To Thi Kim Tien (Born 1975, 44 years old) sit together in the morning at home in Van Dao village, Quang Nam province, Vietnam before she goes back to school for afternoon classes. CRS photographed the family for a week in April 2019 for Rice Bowl Vietnam 2020. Since 2016, CRS has been working in the farming community of the Bính Đao commune, located in Quang Nam Province outside of the city of Hội An, Vietnam. The Disaster Risk Reduction program (DRR) aims to increase the resiliency of farming families in the face of increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather conditions, particularly typhoons and droughts. The traditional knowledge of weather patterns upon which these communities relied on for generations no longer serves to keep families and crops safe. CRS, in partnership with local and national government partners, is working to educate and prepare these families while helping to better care for the natural environment. Donate to CRS to help Thi Trinh and many others.
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Preparing for Lent with the Nguyen family... Sisters Nguyen Thi Trinh (12) and Nguyen Thi Trang (9) play in the field behind the family home while their mother, To Thi Kim Tien (46) looks on. Since 2016, CRS has been working in the farming community of the Bính Đao commune, located in Quang Nam Province outside of the city of Hội An, Vietnam. The Disaster Risk Reduction program (DRR) aims to increase the resiliency of farming families in the face of increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather conditions, particularly typhoons and droughts. The traditional knowledge of weather patterns upon which these communities relied on for generations no longer serves to keep families and crops safe. CRS, in partnership with local and national government partners, is working to educate and prepare these families while helping to better care for the natural environment. For the DRR program, children are agents of change. Primary school students are taught about disaster preparedness and response in school and are instructed to share with their parents what they learn. In this way, DRR is disseminated throughout the community. As a graduate of Nguyên Thi Minh Khai School (elementary), Nguyen Thi Trinh and her family are a prime example of how families learn and adapt their practices based on the curriculum developed for DRR partnered schools.
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Nguyen Thi Trang (9) returns home from school. She is the youngest of the Nguyen family.
Since 2016, CRS has been working in the farming community of the Bính Đao commune, located in Quang Nam Province outside of the city of Hội An, Vietnam. The Disaster Risk Reduction program (DRR) aims to increase the resiliency of farming families in the face of increasingly unpredictable and extreme weather conditions, particularly typhoons and droughts. The traditional knowledge of weather patterns upon which these communities relied on for generations no longer serves to keep families and crops safe. CRS, in partnership with local and national government partners, is working to educate and prepare these families while helping to better care for the natural environment. Donate to help Nguyen and many others like her, this Lent by contributing to CRS Rice Bowl. |
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