FEED Foundation

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a very happy new year!  Mine was fantastic - after the colored foliage display north of us, J and I headed south to visit with my family.  We had a delicious meatloaf dinner at my grandparent's house (it's my grandma's specialty), played family games with my parents, brother, and his girlfriend (yahtzee was the game of choice this year), and then came home to celebrate the New Year with friends.  I apologize for not keeping up on the blog during that time, but I was without computer access for most of it.  One of my new year resolutions is to maintain steady blog posts 5 days a week. 

Speaking of new year's resolutions, I know most people's range all over the place with the typical ones relating to working out, eating healthier, cleaning the house, being more charitable, etc.  I'm going to try to address a few of those this week to give everyone a leg up on the year!  Up first: charity.

I've always been a huge fan of the FEED foundation, whose mission is to supply handmade products made by people in disadvantaged areas with the proceeds supplying food to needy children of the world.  The products they make not only provide anywhere from 2 school meals to a year of nutrients for hungry children in the USA, Rwanda, Guatemala, Kenya, Haiti, etc through the United Nations World Food Program's (WFP) School Feeding operations, but the products themselves are stylish and made with sustainable materials.  I finally went ahead and bought a bag and some bracelets.  Here's a sample of some of their products:

This bag is one of the standard designs and will provide one child in Africa school lunch for an entire year.

These bags supply 1 to 3 children of Guatemala with nutrients for a year.  This product is in association with UNICEF and can be purchased only at Lord & Taylor.

These bracelets are offered through Forever 21 for only $4.80 and each one sold will provide 2 school meals for hungry children.