Overview: Food For Thought

Bonnie Garner Lockwood, adoptive mother of Lelan and Lacey also from Lang Son Vietnam realized that a small amount of money and effort could change peoples lives in northern Vietnam. So far, with the help of friends, Bonnie has accomplished some amazing things focussing on helping an elementary school in Lang Son, from their efforts, the school now has:

1) LUNCH PROGRAM
2) SCHOOL VEGGIE GARDEN
3) WATER WELL and

drum roll please............

4) CHICKEN PROJECT:Bonnie then developed a project that would see families receiving flocks of chickens, feed and coups. In exchange for the chickens families will send their children to school with cooked eggs to add protein to the lunch program. When the chickens have more than doubled their number of hens, these families will give some roosters and hens to another family on our list. After two years of planning, 600 chickens were delivered.
Unfortunately, they were meat chickens, not laying hens. While this has provided meat and improved the nutrition for these families temporarily, we need to replace the meat chickens with laying hens to create a more sustainable protein source.

PLEASE JOIN US TO REPLACE THE 600 CHICKENS! I will be traveling to Lang Son to organize the project in March 2012 to organize and deliver chickens.

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see how to donate.

This is the elementary school:

Here are the kids enjoying lunch thanks to the lunch program!

read more at Bonnie's blog:
http://charitabledreams.blogspot.com

Here is a recent article about the barriers for the poorer children to get an education. Look at the pictures of the kids on the raft, those are some kids in Lang Son where we are working.
http://www.tuoitrenews.vn/cmlink/tuoitrenews/education/

check back in on our progess often!