About the Cause
Poor health and nutrition negatively affect children’s school attendance and ability to learn. We implement school feeding programs that look for alternative ways to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious foods to school children and young people in urban and marginalized areas.
In addition, contaminated water and poor sanitation are big factors that result in the death of children worldwide. In our programs, we always include what is called WASH which means Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. This is done through the design and construction of child-friendly and gender sensitive facilities for sanitation, such as latrines and hand-washing stations. We also provide clean water supply by building water wells and raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.
My Story
As we all know that in the recent times, the internet has not only served as an enabler for a phenomenon whereby individuals from around the world come together to contribute financial resources to fund causes, ideas, projects, products, or businesses; but it has also spurred its diffusion and growth propelling it into a mainstay for financing. Though not an entirely new phenomenon, in the sense of individuals coming together to contribute or pool financial resources, the internet has enabled the phenomenon termed “crowdfunding” to flourish. In a recent Fortune magazine article (Noyes 2014), crowdfunding has been referred to as the democratization of fundraising. Aviny Foundation is trying to work tirelessly for such underprivileged families or individuals who are suffering. And that is how we started anonymously helping.