The Feed Foundation
“Raises awareness and funds to ensure nutritious School Meals for all children as a first step to improving the global food system. It was founded in 2008 by Ellen Gustafson and Lauren Bush.
They started the Foundation because of their shared commitment to raise valuable funds and support for the United Nations World Food Programme’s School feeding efforts. They have extended their focus to look holistically at the global food system and find ways to make it better for all people.
They are also looking at how they can affect change in related areas, like Agriculture, Education, and Health. They support awareness and intervention to address the dilemma of 1 billion people hungry and 1 billion people overweight on the planet in three primary areas:
Food Security
Today nearly 50 million of 1 in 4 Americans, live in households that are unable to afford the food they need to lead full lives daily.
School Feeding
Their first step toward a sustainable food system has been to ensure healthy school meals for all children. In-school meals are critical drive for many children to go to school and around the world as well as a key source of nourishment. They believe that all children should go to school, have access to school meals and that all school meals should be highly nutritious.
Healthy Food
They believe that access to healthful food is just as important as the calories themselves. By developing and supporting regional and local food systems that provide a variety of nutritious foods,they will be a better-nourished world. They support international and domestic sustainable agriculture, food-based and supplemental nutrition programmes and farm-to-table projects, with the goal of making a healthy global system a reality.
Their commitment is to ensure that all children are able to grow and thrive and better their communities through good nutrition and education. By extension, families (especially mothers), farmers and community health and education workers are essential to ensuring that the next generations will be healthier, better educated, and ready to make the world a better place.
The 30 Project
It has taken 30 years of slow change to create the current global food system and it will take investment in long-term, sustainable changes in planning, policies, and practices to address the hunger, obesity, and agricultural problems of today. There is a global epidemic of malnutrition, including both overfed and underfed people, and it’s time to change it. FEED are in it for the long haul.
