In 2024, we're working to serve 9,000 children hot lunches daily. We hope you'll join us as we answer Jesus' admonition to feed those who are hungry.
Feeding The Hungry
"You Fed Me..."
We started the 3 Esthers Farm in 2015 with 10 acres of bare land and a desire to respond to God's call to feed the hungry kids in Zambia.
Today we have 60 local team members in Zambia mobilized in three teams. Together they serve hot lunch to 9,000 hungry school kids daily and serve over 1,000 people with backyard gardens - frequently widow headed households, Our three core projects are:
Today we have 60 local team members in Zambia mobilized in three teams. Together they serve hot lunch to 9,000 hungry school kids daily and serve over 1,000 people with backyard gardens - frequently widow headed households, Our three core projects are:
1) The 3 Esthers Farm
2) Backyard Gardens
3) Hot Lunches
We employ our team with good paying jobs asking them to serve their community to make a local impact. We believe James 1:27 says it well,
"True religion that God our fathers accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and keep oneself from being polluted by the world."
We hope you'll join us as we answer Jesus' admonition to feed those who are hungry.
Feeding The Hungry
23 Schools
We’re serving 23 schools with our daily feeding program in partnership with Convoy Of Hope. Children receive a nutritious hot lunch. The Schools receive a staffing grant for a cook and program coordinator – as well as support with logistics such as kitchen construction and water management.
Serving Schools
120 Households
As vocational training for teens, we’re growing backyard gardens for 120 households in Ngombe Compound – the most difficult urban slum in Lusaka Zambia. There are 9 family members in each house on average. They receive the blessing of a backyard garden – and the teens receive vocational training and a stipend to help them further their education.
Supporting Widows
10,000 Fed
Through the School Feeding Initiative we’ll serve 9,000 children. Through the backyard gardens we’ll serve another 900. We’ll serve hundreds more in the community through direct assistance to the most needy.
Feeding People
60 Team Members
We employ 60 local team members through our 3 core programs (the farm, the feeding initiative, and the backyard gardens). Each is given the dignity of work – and the joy of knowing their work is directly helping improve their community.
Local Employment
Serving Widows
Through our backyard garden program, we are serving widows and vulnerable households.
We've found that the poorest and most vulnerable households in Ngombe Compound are usually widow headed households or led by people with critical illnesses, such as HIV/AIDS. We are passionate about serving them.
Teen Vocational Training
Our backyard garden team learns valuable agricultural skills as they serve their community.
Our innovative Backyard program not only grows nutritious food right in community members backyards but also provides vocational training (and a stipend) to teens who want to learn a new skill and help their community.
Each team member manages ten gardens, each supporting nine people on average. Together, over 1,000 of the community's most vulnerable and undernourished get help, hope, and fresh food daily!
Growing Food To Feed The Hungry
At the 3 Esthers Farm we grow vegetables and orchard fruits to help boost nutrition.
Our nutritious vegetable crops and orchard fruit add an additional boost to our school feeding programs.
Vegetables like cabbage, tomatoes, onions, eggplant, and leafy greens are harvested three times a year.
Orchard fruits like bananas, mango, papaya, oranges, and guava are harvested all year long.
Our food is grown for the sole purpose of feeding the hungry and we rush it from the farm to the schools we serve as quickly as we can.
The farm also serves as an outdoor classroom for our backyard gardeners as they learn valuable vocational skils.
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