Food Relief

BOH provides  short food relief to women and children at the centre .This is achieved through  the preschool feeding program as well as the Health care centre ART program.  We realise that it is impossible for a hungry and frustrated mother and child to give their best or hope for any endeavor.

Kitchen Gardening

At its initial stages, BOH provided two square meals a day to women and children in the center. Over a 150 people (men, women and children) were fed each day, through a feeding program. The food helped the beneficiaries quell the pangs of hunger and focus on their learning.

As time and new ideas came forth, kitchen gardening was given a more preferred consideration to replace the food basket. This step was specifically taken so as to introduce self sufficiency, sustainability, affordability, accessibility, availability, and food security in the lives of women and men affected and infected by HIV/AIDS within Ongata Rongai.

 There was an urgent need to  establish a long- term and self sustaining option for our clients, a program that would reduce dependency considerably and create both economic and social independence in the lives of the affected women. The results have been significantly visible for those who took kitchen gardening. There is a change in their daily income, their nutritional needs, and food security. Kitchen gardening has ensured that women have sufficient, food to meet their dietary needs, in order to lead a healthy and productive life.