As we prepare to gather around the table and share food with our loved ones, I want to bring your attention to another table–the one at our JCO Children's Home–where our bright and beautiful kiddos gather around to share their meals every day.

A staggering statistic that we determined recently is that we have served more than 250,000 healthy, balanced, nutritious meals to our kiddos at the JCO Home over the past 15 years. That blew my mind! These meals have provided more than physical nourishment and good health, but also a sense of safety and belonging for multiple generations of children. 

YOU did that! If you have given to us in any way, YOU have a hand in making a quarter of a million meals possible! What better way to build a connection between communities than through food? We are so grateful for each one of you.

We may know that, of course, food is important, but no one understands it better than our kiddos themselves. When we asked two of our former JCO kids to talk about their experience at JCO, food was a shared theme:

“JCO ensures that the children who are living there are provided with good food because most children who stay there, maybe perhaps the homes from where they came from, they never had places to sleep on, they never had beds or blankets, they never had 3 meals a day. So, having these underprivileged children accessing education or having good food, being sure about what they are going to eat next. I can say that is a big privilege of what JCO offers to its children.”- Jerrym

“My experience at JCO, it's pretty interesting. You come from where you don't have that much or pretty much nothing. Then now you have clothes, food, and water. All of this stuff is provided to you with only one mission–you should study to achieve your dream… And so, it was a life changer for me.” - Juma

These two young men are both grown up now, and we are proud of the responsible, intelligent, conscientious adults they have become, but we do have 16 other kiddos living in our JCO Home right at this moment and YOU can help to provide for their needs. YOU can help transform someone's life for the better right now by becoming a Global Guardian today!

During our Two Communities Matching campaign, every donation we receive is DOUBLED! Any amount helps, but a $4,000 donation will cover not one, but TWO kiddos in our JCO Home for an entire year! 

I want to leave you with these words from our RH Scholar and UA Razorback graduate, Juma:

“If I was to speak about my experience at JCO, I have so much good to say and it's going to be something that for many people who are fortunate, it's normal. But for us who didn't have much and you get a chance to have such a life, it's really amazing and it makes you dream bigger.” 

Let us all remember to be grateful for our blessings in life, and if you are able, pass those blessings on to someone else. 

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