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USAID Awards SHARE a Major Food Project Grant EVANSTON, ILLINOIS, November 06, 2006--SHARE is pleased to announce the receipt of a major and generous grant from USAID. The funding in the amount of $100,100.00 and 75 metric tons of food, being 37.5 metric tones of Harvest Pro Vegetable Blend Soup and 37.5 metric tons of Unflavored Vegetable Blend from Breedlove, will go toward the school feeding center program in Bié province of Angola. The duration of the project activities will be from September 30, 2006 through September 30, 2007. This grant will not only enable SHARE to provide food security to the children under five in selected communities, along with much needed adult supervised care, and give supplementary food for three schools run by the Evangelical Church in Bié province of Angola, but it will also complement the other projects SHARE is implementing . Angola has recently emerged from almost three decades of a protracted civil war, which had profound negative impact on the development of the country in general and the survival and development of infants (children). The worst affected children are those of returnees who went back to their pre-war homes. These children face both food insecurity and lack of care while their parents are busy constructing their houses or looking for work to support the family. In addition, students in three church-run schools in Bié province lack the necessary food resources to keep them healthy and concentrate on their studies. These students walk long distances to collect food from their families and come back to school. Some students are forced to drop out of school because this life is too difficult for them. As Guerra Freitas, SHARE’s President, put it, “This grant is timely and significant due to the fact that it will give us the tools to encourage young children to be in their classrooms and learn, without worrying about what they are going to eat, at least, for the next school year.” Guerra Freitas experienced hunger as a student in Angola: “Due to the civil war in Angola, I normally went to school without much to eat, sometimes for several long days. The suffering made me study so hard to make sure that I would be able to, someday, provide for my mother and brothers and others in need.” Study hard Guerra did, indeed: On November 04, 2006, East-West University, his alma mater in Chicago, honored Guerra Freitas with the award of The Alumnus of the Year for his academic accomplishments and his humanitarian work. Furthermore, as Guerra Freitas continued to reflect on the significance of the USAID funding toward this food project, he stressed that, “It enables SHARE to complement its multi-sectoral intervention in Bié and Kuando Kubango provinces, Angola, which targets the poorest of the poor and the most vulnerable underage children. With this food project, SHARE hopes to assist underage children to concentrate on their learning process and become invaluable assets not only to Angola, but also to the rest of the world.”
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