One of the goals of Jewelry Of HOPE is to use the proceeds from the sale of the jewelry to buy food for people in the village where the jewelry is made. The first village feeding using proceeds from the jewelry was held on November 15th.
Volunteers from Living Hope CRC and Samaritans Foundation along with Luckny and Mateo who live in Los Algodones went through the whole village the day before distributing tickets to each of the 200 homes in Los Algodones and Villa Esperanza. Luckny and Mateo translated that someone from each home needed to bring the ticket to the school the next day and they would be given a bag of food.
The next day, the volunteers exchanged the tickets for bags of food that contained 3 lbs rice, 1 lb dry beans, oil, bouillon cubes and a large tin of sardines. This is enough food to feed 200 families for several days!
Thank you to all who have bought jewelry to support both the people making the jewelry as well as other people in the village!
