Description
Give a child the gift of a strong start each school day. Through the SHINE program, your support provides a nutritious Haitian breakfast of cassava bread and peanut butter, fueling both learning and hope.
Nourishment That Fuels Learning
A hungry child cannot focus in the classroom. By starting the day with a healthy breakfast, students have the energy to learn, concentrate, and thrive. Studies show children in the SHINE program see fewer absences, less fatigue, and up to a 15% improvement in academic performance.
Strengthening Communities Through Local Farming
Your gift doesn’t just feed children—it empowers entire communities. Every breakfast is made with ingredients sourced from Haitian farmers and processors, creating fair jobs, reliable income, and new opportunities for more than 700 families.
Building a Brighter Future for Haiti
The SHINE program is more than a meal—it’s an investment in long-term resilience. By reducing dependence on imported foods and strengthening local supply chains, your gift helps Haiti’s children, families, and communities move toward self-sufficiency and hope for the future.
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Catalog Notice
Gifts to Food For The Poor help advance our mission to alleviate hunger, poverty, and suffering. Donations are understood to be allocated flexibly, allowing us to address the most urgent needs and sustain our operations. This flexibility enables us to respond quickly in times of crisis and maintain long-term support where it’s needed most. We are committed to being responsible stewards of your generosity, ensuring every gift has a meaningful impact on those we serve.
Why Support our new Pilot Inititaive
A Mercado Global handbag isn’t just an accessory—it’s a meaningful gift that represents hope and resilience. When you shop on our website you're making the statement that poverty isn't inevitable.
Every purchase helps create a stable economic environment within impoverished communities, which can lead to food security and reduce dependency on aid. It’s an investment in breaking the cycle of poverty through fair trade practices that uplift entire communities.
Each handbag is a unique piece of art, handcrafted by skilled artisans who draw on traditional techniques passed down through generations. This supports cultural preservation while giving artisans a source of pride and financial independence.
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Handbags are ethically crafted, prioritizing fair labor practices and sustainable production. With each purchase, you’re helping prove that we can tackle poverty through sustainable community development.
Buying a Mercado Global handbag provides sustainable income for artisans in marginalized communities, directly helping them support their families. By working part-time, artisans can make up to $8 a day, which is enough to lift themselves out of poverty over the course of a few months of engagement.
By shopping with us, you’re supporting a test initiative designed to demonstrate that we can build a sustainable, closed-loop system between our micro-enterprise programs and an online marketplace. If the test is sucessful we'll be able to scale up our programs.