Palms for Life Fund - Cooking For Life

Palms for Life Fund is looking for a unique way to use food as a means of connecting people around the world and educating the youth to become true world citizens. Cooking for Life is a project that partners Palms for Life Fund with local restaurants, to help feed poor school children in Ecuador.

The way it works:
Participating Restaurants would create a special recipe, using some unique tropical ingredients (as organic as possible) such as coconut milk, the famous Acai berry from Brazil, or any other tropical/exotic product. Because of our name, we will promote a dish that resonates with the idea of “palms” (the logo of Palms for Life has a symbolic meaning: hands joining but also a shape of trees, evoking the idea of food and shelter and of “green”. Palms for Life IS GREEN!).

The dishes will be given a special name, for instance “Vida” or “Hope”, or even an exotic name related to food such as the Swahili words of “Chakula” or “Riziki”. The participating restaurants will agree to give the profits from the dish to alleviate poverty by feeding poor children in schools. This will allow for multiple benefits: nutrition, education and health.

Restaurants will display informational pamphlets on the tables highlighting the cause with some additional information on the origin of the ingredients, the nutritional value of the food, basic information on Ecuador and what it means to be poor in the country… highlighting the cause.

A version of the dish can also be created for children with the same exotic ingredients. The children’s placemats or table tops can promote healthy eating and a connection to the country that the special ingredient comes from. A map of the country to color, local exotic animals, and information on what children eat in Ecuador will also be featured on the placemats.

We are thinking of a wonderful message of awakening and curiosity! Obviously, the children will also be informed that the dish they ordered will help feed other children like them, in poor countries. Cooking for Life will be a total educational experience: for the patrons at the restaurants and the school children that will benefit from this project.

What the program supports:
Profits from the program will go directly towards school feeding programs in Ecuador. It costs only US$0.20 to provide a child with one school meal per day in Ecuador. That means that every dollar earned will ensure that five less children go hungry. Or in other words, that with each dollar, five children have a better opportunity to learn!

School feeding programs involve more than just nutrition; they increase children’s capacity to learn. Not only do feeding programs lead to a higher school attendance rates, due to the incentive of food, a well nourished child also has a longer attention span and increased concentration and retention rates.

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