As stewards of our donors’ generosity The Good People Fund always tries to get the most “bang for the buck” as we invest their tzedakah in our programs.
Jacob Sztokman is the founder of Gabriel Project Mumbai which works to foster health, nutrition, literacy and empowerment among families living in Mumbai’s slums. In today’s email Jacob shared some good news about our latest grant which provides a special combination of food and nutrients for the more than 300 babies recently diagnosed with severe and acute malnutrition. The Hyderabad mix was developed by India’s National Institute of Nutrition and is used widely in that country to counter the effects of poor nutrition.
What makes our grant that much more meaningful is that the women pictured here learning how to prepare the mix are the same group of local women who we helped in 2013 to establish a small kitchen where they run a micro-business preparing food for students at a nearby school.
Who wouldn’t feel good knowing that seriously malnourished babies have a chance to grow and flourish and that women who previously had no hope of lifting their families from desperate poverty are now earning enough money to change their lives.
