Lunches for Learning
Lunches for Learning (founded 2005) provides a nutritious meal to the very poor children in public schools and kindergartens within the Republic of Honduras. Organization. Lunches for Learning, Inc is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization founded in 2004 and incorporated in 2005 by Ron Hicks. Lunches for Learning, Inc. is also listed as an incorporated entity in the republic of Honduras, where it predominantly operates. The scope of the Lunches for Learning program is to help break the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras by providing nutrition and nutritional supplements to the impoverished children in public schools  and kindergartens. The primary objective of the program is to permit children, who would otherwise have to leave school to seek food, to attend school and receive a basic six-grade academic education (adequate in exponentially increasing the chances of a decent future above the poverty level for an individual in Honduras). Lunches for Learning provides and supplements a daily lunch for elementary school children by utilizing the cooperative efforts of individual contributors, corporate sponsorship, and the government of Honduras. Currently, the Lunches for Learning program accommodates 29 schools and 1,700 children. In the US, L4L's operations are predominantly  staffed by volunteers under the leadership of an executive director. In Honduras, L4L employs local Honduran citizens who provide essential management and administration of their program in country. Both volunteers and employees in Honduras and the US are dedicated individuals, working efficiently to keep administrative and logistical costs low so that more hungry children can be fed. In addition to its main goal, Lunches for Learning also helps build kitchens and assists World Food Program (WFP) transport legumes, corn, rice, and cooking oil necessary for producing meals. Growth. The Lunches for Learning program started with 84 children in 1 school . Since 2004, the L4L Organization has grown to sponsor 29 schools and accommodate over 1,700 children. Sponsored schools. The "Schools" section of the Lunches for Learning website provides an interactive GPS map with geographically accurate map-points in which all L4L program-sponsored schools are shown, number of students, along with their current community.