Hunger and malnutrition kills more
people than AIDS, malaria, and TB
combined.
The global food system
is imbalanced and people are sick
and dying due to lack of good
quality nutrition.
Almost 400 million children
around the world go to bed hungry
every night. In fact, every five
seconds a child dies because he or
she is hungry.
There are still over 77 million
children not attending school (60%
of which are girls), 150 million
children drop out of school before
attaining a basic primary education,
and 50 million hungry children are
not receiving any form of food aid.
The Solution
School feeding is one of the most
effective solutions to stopping
hunger and breaking the poverty
cycle.
In 74 countries, the UN World
Food Program (WFP) offers a
nutrient-packed meal to children in
school. This food gets kids to
school, who might not attend
otherwise, and gives them the energy
to learn and empowers them to better
their lives.
When boys and girls are given a
free, nutritious meal in school,
research has shown that attendance
increases by 100% and performance
improves greatly. Girls with just a
few years of education have fewer
children, have them later in life,
and are better prepared to care for
and educate them. For many children,
a school lunch is the only meal they
will receive all day. Learn More:
www.wfp.org.
F
EED
Projects goal is to reach hungry
children through the sales of our
FEED
bags.
FEED
bags raise much-needed funds for WFP
school-feeding operations and
awareness of the problem of child
hunger.
We distribute the funds through
the
FEED
Foundation, our partner organization
which gets the money from bag sales
to hungry children as efficiently as
possible. Please visit the
FEED
Foundation at
www.thefeedfoundation.org.
Our Story
FEED
Projects was started in 2006 when
acclaimed model and activist Lauren
Bush designed a bag to benefit the
United Nations World Food Program's
(WFP) School Feeding operations.
Lauren, a WFP Honorary Spokesperson
who has visited eight WFP food aid
operations around the world, was
inspired by the plight of the people
she met on her travels. She took a
special interest in WFP's School
Feeding program, which feeds and
educates hungry children.
Inspired by the aesthetic of the
bags of food distributed by WFP, she
created the
FEED
1 bag, a reversible burlap and
cotton bag stamped with "FEED
the children of the world" and the
number "1" to signify that each bag
feeds one child in school for one
year.
At the UN, Lauren met then-WFP
Communications Officer Ellen
Gustafson and they hatched a plan to
use
FEED
bags to
FEED
the world. In 2007, Lauren and Ellen
founded FEED Projects, LLC and
started selling
FEED
1 bags in April of 2007. By the end
of 2007, they raised donations for
WFP to feed over 37,500 hungry
children in school for one year. In
2008,
FEED
Projects various partnerships will
lead to over $4 million for WFP
school feeding.
Our personal commitment to
working against hunger is matched
with a commitment to the environment
and to safe and healthy working
conditions for all we work with.
FEED
bags are made with sustainable
materials and are designed to be
used as an alternative to disposable
paper and plastic bags. This
environmental and fair labor
commitment is an added value in all
FEED
products.
The goal of
FEED
Projects is to market and sell as
many
FEED
bags as possible and to
FEED
and educate the world's 400 million
hungry children.
Our Product Values
All
FEED
products are made as eco-friendly
and fairly as possible. Our bags are
produced with high-quality, 100%
organic cotton and natural burlap.
We work with only audited and
certified fair labor facilities.
It's important to us to visit the
places our products are made AND the
places our donations are going.
www.feedprojects.org