Ending Hunger | A Community Giving Network

Chicken drumstick is Leah's favorite food. But she always saved it for her mother whenever the it is on the school lunch menu. " I would like to save my favorite food for mom." says Leah.

Leah is from a single parent family. Her father passed away the year before due to myocardial infarction. Leah and her mother were then kicked out of their home by relatives. Leah felt helpless by the bullying her mother received from relatives. She is mature to her age and a very sensible and understanding child to her mother. She wants to grow up fast and protect her mother. Her mother takes several jobs to support both of them, mostly temp and low-paid jobs as she lacks the necessary education and working experiences. When she finally landed a cleaning job, she was then being laid off due to an employment disputes arisen out of an occupational accident. While she took the time to recover, she also lost her job which put the family finance situation in difficulty. Leah is able to get a meal a day in school but she always saves the main course to her mother.

What a child she is; luckily the social workers at the MSM local community service center immediately helped them! With the supplies from the Food Bank, and the the subsidy to relieve their money problem! Although poor, Leah is neither depressed nor disappointed by their family situation. Instead she often cheers her mother by saying, "It's ok! I will study hard, work hard and give you the best life in the future." 

Here's the 2019 Result Report from the field:

Beneficiaries 
Vulnerable families and people in need in the communities that need daily food.

Project focuses on… 
1. Setting community foodbanks: providing assistance in setting community food banks and helping in recruiting resources in the communities for the community foodbanks. 
2. Building a hunger-free network: connecting each community foodbank to one another and make it a whole sharing network. Distributing donated food and supplies to people in need in an efficient and sufficient way. 
3. Decreasing the shipping time: with the purchase of trucks, we can carry more donated food and supplies to more people in need in more areas.
 
2019 Results 
 

In 2019,

• 353 community foodbanks are set all over Taiwan.
• 9,982 beneficiaries, and the service is provided 160,676 person-times.
• a total of 16,6905.2 kg of supplies were received through the network, including: 

1. Dry food: rice, noodles, flour, oil, soy sauce, canned food, etc. 
2. Fresh food: vegetables, fruits, seafood, meat, steamed buns, flavored milk, yogurt, etc. 
3. Household supplies: body Wash, shampoo, lotion, toothpaste, toothbrush, etc.

An average of 1 kg of supplies is received by per person.
Supplies are shipped by foodbank volunteers to families in need in the communities.

Thank you again for all you have done to help this cause.
With gratitude,

The Mustard Seed Mission
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The Mustard Seed Mission
Website: http://www.mustard.org.tw/locale/en
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mustard.tw/
Donation Information: https://www.mustard.org.tw/locale/en/tab/898
E-Newsletter: https://goo.gl/e8EUBo
MSM - the 1st registered Social Welfare Organization in Taiwan -  https://youtu.be/qyTAv0L5Sz0

Links:

• https://www.mustard.org.tw/locale/en