- Total Impacts: 15,600 Meals Per Year
- Number of impacts pledged: 0
- Number Of Investors: 0
Feed People Working In A Garbage Dump
From: $0.56
Sustainable Development Goals:
Project Managed By: Club Need
One of Club Need’s staff members or country managers has visited this project and verified the work they are doing.
Nicaragua
Nicaragua is the poorest country in Latin America and second poorest in the Western Hemisphere. Currently, over 80 percent of the 5.5 million residents are living below the $2 per day poverty line. High unemployment and underemployment have resulted in this widespread poverty and country-wide economic instability.
Listed among the Seven Horrendous Wonders of the World, Cristo Rey, a barrio on the outskirts of the capital city of Managua is home to 4000+ families that know no other life. Here they anxiously wait for the garbage trucks to bring them scraps, or scrounge through the piles of garbage in the hope that they might find something valuable they can use. Some days they are lucky enough to eat and other days they “fast”.
Here people make shelters from black plastic and whatever scraps they can find. Most homes have mud floors, no sanitation, electricity, clean running water, medical attention or educational opportunities for their children. During rainy season, the shallow latrines that families use flow onto the paths and walkways. Most children walk around barefoot in a combination of mud and human waste. Their future is bleak.
Since 2014, Club Need together with our church partner in Cristo Rey, operates several programs in the community including water, food, housing, education and healthcare.
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Project Overview
In Nicaragua’s poorest barrios, where poverty and limited opportunities prevail, we’re addressing a critical issue: hunger and malnutrition.
By pledging your support to this project, you become a lifeline for the most vulnerable group in this community – those who are trying to survive by scavenging an open pit garbage dump for recyclables. This program is all about filling their stomachs and possibly the only meal they will have all day.
The people working in the dump, including children, endure extreme poverty and your support not only addresses immediate hunger but also plays a pivotal role in improving dignity and quality of life.
Join us in providing a meal twice a week to people working in the Cristo Rey garbage Dump. Your contribution holds immense significance, creating tangible improvements in the lives of these hard working men, women and children.
In the heart of Cristo Rey Nicaragua, where Club Need lends its unwavering support, lies one of Central America’s most impoverished barios, where families often struggle to secure even the most basic necessities—food and clean water.
The goal of this project is to provide twice weekly meals for 150 men women and children who would otherwise go without.
These basic meals encompass a balanced combination of rice, beans, tortillas and a banana. Also there is access to safe clean water, a rare treat in the harsh environment of the garbage dump, making this program even more noteworthy.
This program is operated on the grounds of the make shift recycling center where scavengers turn in their daily haul for instant cash – usually $1-2 per day. In the recycling center’s modest kitchen, a rotating team of volunteer cooks prepare meals and serve them on site or deliver to workers in the dump, ensuring nobody hungry is left out.
This program offers 2 meals per week to just Cristo Rey dump workers by design. Offering a free meal every day will draw in more workers from other communities to the dump and thus creating an imbalance. There is only a limited amount of recycled material for 150 workers to scavenge at this site each day and this project is about supporting the current group of workers who call Cristo Rey their home. In actuality there are less than 100 men and women working in the dump, the remainder are their young children.
The cost of each meal includes all necessary ingredients, spices, firewood, to-go containers and transportation to the local market.
Join us in making a lasting impact in the lives of the most vulnerable group in this community by adopting this program today.
Together, we can provide a simple meal and make someones day just a little better.
Micro Impacts represent the smallest measurable units of positive change stemming from our charitable projects. At Club Need, we deconstruct initiatives like providing clean water for a day or sheltering a family into these essential components. Each micro impact is meticulously calculated, factoring in project duration, beneficiaries, and cost.
We intentionally keep the cost of micro impacts minimal, making it affordable for businesses to create a meaningful impact. By choosing micro impacts like providing a liter of clean water for less than a cent, companies seamlessly integrate social impact into daily operations, creating a collective ripple effect for meaningful change without substantial expenses.
