From The Other Side of The Table (Appendix)〜Vol.33 〜
Published July, 2020

To all of you participating at TABLE FOR TWO(TFT) programs:
Thank you for all your warm support to TFT programs! We truly appreciate yourenergy into this wonderful initiative. TFT has been focusing its initiatives on
promoting healthy diet habits and food supply to our affiliated schools.
In this newsletter “The Other Side of The Table”, we hope to present to you the reality
and changes at those schools.

TFT’s COVID-19 response
Starting early this year, our world has been affected by COVID-19, and all countries
TFT supports are struggling to manage the situation. Since March, children’s lifestyle
has changed dramatically due to the mandate from local governments to close allschools and kindergartens.
TFT staff have been keeping updated about local conditions through local channels
and trying to take initiative to keep supply and food flowing in the hardest hit
regions. In some regions, with the rise of food prices and unemployment, people’s
daily life hasn't been easier, and that’s when TFT feels even stronger responsibilitytowards providing abundant and nutritious food to those in need.

About our fundraising and awareness building activities<Donations dated until today>
Total over 76 million (76,529,893) meals (as of June 2020) to 5 Eastern
Africa and Asian countries (Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Philippines) of foodsupply at schools and support to the local vegetable farms.
<We renewed our website!>
To better promote our programs, we revamped our official website. We used to beknown for our support at the cafeterias and vending machines, please take a lookat website to see our new initiatives: https://www.tablefor2.org/

COVID-19 Sweeping Africa
360,000 people in Africa are reported to be diagnosed with covid-19.* Data from End of June
has shown that 75% of new cases are from developing countries, and Africa is one of the mostattention catching countries from the perspective of medical professionals.
Lack of equipment test and a lack ofwidespread treatment system in therural areas are the biggest concern.
Meanwhile, in Eastern Africa,
countries like Ethiopia, Kenya,
Somalia are also going through ahard time from lack of food supply
and rising food prices due to thelocust swarm.
* Source: WHO, July 6, 2020

About 1.6 billion children have nowhere to go due to theschool closure
Since March 2020 when local governments fromall over the world have mandated “stay home”
policies to prevent more new cases, 90% of theworld student population, reaching 1.6 billion, can
not go to school anymore due to COVID-19*.
Schools were forced to close in Eastern Africancountries as well. Children have lost not only theiropportunity for education but also school meals,which has caused psychological and physical issues.
TFT staff persisted on delivering food supply tothose who are in urgent need while making sureeveryone in action was safe from the virus.

* Source: UNESCO

Supply of nutrition and food never stopped
In Banda Village in Rwanda, an alternative plan forfood distribution was put in place immediately afterschools were closed. From pre-school level and on,
we started to provide them with take-homepackages of raw millet, sugar etc., and distributed
them to households with school age children.
At first, we were unsure of how much food to
distribute for an extended period of time. However,after the first few deliveries, we decided 3 times aweek would be best in order to ensure the qualityof the food as well as the safety of our delivery
people and the recipients.

From this initiative, we also managed to preventour delivery people from losing their jobs.

Permitted to keep feeding programs in schools andkindergartens during lockdown
TFT keeps school feeding programs at primary and middle schools in Banda Village 3 times aweek even during the school closure. They assign students to come to school in shifts, andstudents are asked to keep distance when having their meals. After each meal, students areencouraged to participate in community activities before they go home.
Starting May, kindergartens adopted this idea and started food supply to children too. Throughthis policy, parents were so much relieved from the food preparation burden. In addition. The
local team can check on children’s health conditions.

Children enjoying their meal.
Compared to when 8 children
could sit at one table, now werestrict 1-2 children per table
and in shifts; some children
have to eat outdoors.

Sewing workers became mask craftswomenStarting this April, Kenya, Rwanda and several other countries in East Africa mandated people toput on masks in the public. However, wearing a mask is not a familiar habit in the region, andthere were not plenty of non-woven masks in the market. Therefore most people use clothmasks. Female workers who used to sew clothes got a new career: to make colorful cloth masks!
In Rusinga Island of Kenya,we distributed instructions
information on how to makeand wear a mask correctly.
One local made mask sells
for about 25 US cents in thelocal market.

Setting up hand washing stations
Hand-washing is highly recommended as a preventative measure to COVID-19 in Africancountries. In our alliance regions there was not enough water supply infrastructure, andpeople have to collect water from rain, wells and rivers. Soap price is reasonable to local
people, but washing hands with soap was not a common habit.
TFT is working hard to set up handwash facilities in Rusinga Island andMfangano Island.
Meanwhile, we also promote throughillustrations on posters about thecorrect way to wash hands and theimportant steps on how to wash
carefully.