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BRAZIL
Community garden where everyone works together to produce what food they can.
Community members working in a community garden.
Since December 2005, CFFC has sent the Ursuline Sisters in Brazil a cash donation of $10,000 annually. Because of the high cost of shipping to Brazil and the inability to safeguard the delivery of the container, cash was sent to purchase food and medicines for families supported by the Sisters. Local Brazilian vendors sell the food at cost for this programme.
Children also are expected to work in the gardens.
Children also help out in the community garden.
The teachers at the school selected 36 families to receive parcels of food.
Food hampers for 36 families
Each family receiving food has to sign their sheet, sometimes with a thumbprint.
"Thumbprint" signature for mothers that are illiterate.
Mothers sign for food hampers

Thank you letter from one of the mothers receiving food.
 Another thank you letter from a mother receiving aid for her family.
"I want to tell you who give these bags of food, many thanks. May God reward each one of you. Thank you. I desire many years of life for each of you."
Maria
"I greatly thank you for the help. May God bless you."
Sueli
Families receiving food aid meet at the school for parcels.
Returning home after food distribution
"A number of very poor families are squatters on the land under the bridge. Homes are made of mud and wire, reeds and sticks, boards and black plastic; the luckier ones may have a brick wall or two...Families that live here and in small huts on the mountainside are the recipients of the monthly food hampers brought with funds sent by CFFC - BC Division."
Teachers at the school identify families that need additional food support.
Children of families receiving food parcels

The houses are mostly along and under the bridge and made of mud, at times covered with plastic.
Mud Houses Covered in Plastic to Keep Out Rain
"The word 'buraco' means hole or cavity, pit or hollow. That's what the people call the space where they live. The (homes) on the other side of the bridge (were) called 'Villa Miseria' --- 'Misery Street" before our Friends of St. Angela began to help there and changed the name." Excerpts from a report from the Ursulines

Winter in Brazil is wet and cold, and this is when the mud houses disintegrate.

Mud Houses (Buracos) Along the Bridge

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COLUMBIA

Buenaventeua, Columbia: two ladies live toether in decrepit rented house with 6 children

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Buenaventeua, Columbia: two ladies live toether in decrepit rented house with 6 children
Bales of clothing being unloaded in Columbia
Lentils from CFFC being prepared for a meal
Food from CFFC being prepared for distribution
Boy receiving a small portion of prepared food

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PERU

The smallest child in this family already died of malnutrition
Ricordo Durand, Lima Peru
Peruvian family with their llama
Arequipa, Peru
Chincha Alta, Peru
Food distribution in Peru
Peruvian woman in her house
Family from the high country receiving clothes
The kitchen at Belen Hogar Home
Kitchen in Hogar Belen home
"I want to say...a big thank you to all you wonderful people who support us. As I've said so often we have been rescued from the slums. Because of you we have become people with an education and a bright future. May God's blessing be on you." Letter excerpts from Hogar Belen Mission

Canadian Food for Children buys oatmeal, peas, lentils, and rice to ship to developing countries.
Children eating oatmeal from CFFC

Hogar Belen has a small farm where bread is made using flour from Canadian Food for Children.
Making bread at the "Farm"

With approximately 150 people, mostly children under their direct care in residence, the Hogar Belen Home deals with all the normal broken bones, cuts etc. of all children.
Medical room at Hogar Belen

Moquegua is the town where the Hogan Belen Home is located.
Housing in nearby Mosque

100 pound sacks of food are redistributed in plastic pails to individuals or families.
Distribution of B. C. Food
Pails from CFFC containing peas, lentils, oatmeal, or rice.
Peruvian street children with food
A Peruvian woman from the highlands and her child clutch food supplies in small plastic containers.
Highlands woman with food from CFFC
Peruvian women cooking food in mud brick kitchen
Cooking in mudbrick kitchen
Another child receives a pail of food from Canadian Food for Children, B. C. Division
Distribution of B. C. food

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