Once the community’s food program begins, Camilla will receive meals. Giselle hopes to benefit from the pre- and post-natal care that will be available to provide her baby with the best possible health and well-being. Consequently, these services will lend the family comfort through the provision of these basic needs.
Partnered with Tearfund, Ceiba Church in Barranquilla is home to this type of feeding program. With the help of hundreds of generous Canadians, the church invites families living in the slums to send their children for meals, providing for two hundred children daily from 11am-1pm.
The program is staffed by volunteers, about half of whom are Venezuelan refugees. Not only does this keep a well-running program, it provides mothers with a place to gain marketable skills they can integrate into their lives in Colombia.