Hajiya NafisaFOUNDATION
FOOD RELIEF

Hot meals for the almajiri children

A distribution day in Kaduna: children queue with their bowls past the market stalls, and every one of them eats.

Trays of packed meals being handed out to a crowd of children

On distribution day the line forms along the market stalls: almajiri boys of every age, each holding the bowl he eats from. Some have walked a long way for it. The foundation's volunteers work down the queue with sealed packs of hot, cooked food until everyone in the line has one.

There is no registration desk and no speech. Children are fed because they are hungry and they are here; the counting happens afterwards, in the foundation's records, where every distribution is logged against the money that paid for it.

One meal does not change a life. A reliable one changes everything about how a child's week goes, and reliability is what regular giving buys. Monthly gifts keep distribution days on the calendar.

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Programmes run on regular giving; small monthly gifts carry the most weight.