Transforming a child’s education, one meal at a time.

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In 2021 Lunchbox Fund extended our pre-school reach to encompass mobile pre-school centres, come-and-play buses, mobile toy libraries and home-based early childhood development programs. Our meals are supporting quality education for children in the most rural, under-resourced areas.

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100%

of all donations and grants go directly to food, logistics and monitoring costs. Lunchbox Fund's core staff salaries and day-to-day operating expenses are funded by a Lunchbox Fund Trustee.

School Nutrition Program 2024:

1,975 schools
106,000 children
21 million meals

Relief Feeding Impact 2020 - 2024:

976,389 beneficiaries
25.8 million meals

70 million

school meals since 2005

1 meal costs

R4.15/$0.23/£0.17
(meal cost averaged against child's age/portion size & meal served)

387,000 children

served with meals at school since 2005

10,000

schools supported since 2005

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Feed a child. Nourish a mind.

Your donation will provide nutritionally fortified meals to vulnerable and food-insecure children in schools throughout South Africa. By feeding a child in school, we help children get the education they desperately need to build a life free of poverty for themselves and their families.

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The Lunchbox Fund has achieved Guidestar’s Platinum Status. Guidestar is a public charity that collects, organizes, and presents information about non-profits. We subscribe to the Independent Code of Governance for Non-Profit Organisations in South Africa

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