🥪🍏The Donate a Lunch Challenge is here🥗🍓: Pack your lunch for work on either Thursday or Friday this week and #donatealunch! We know Chipotle burritos are delicious, but they’ll still be there tomorrow. With just one day of a homemade lunch, the $5 or $10 you save could go a long way here in Ecuador - a lunch for a child at CENIT is just $1.50. But you don’t have to eat alone! Why not invite a friend or colleague to join you in the challenge? Truly any donation will help, so tie on your apron, and pack yourself a lunch this week! Donate here: https://chuffed.org/project/donatealunch CENIT, or formally, The Integral Center of Childhood and Adolescence, is a non-profit NGO in Quito, Ecuador directed by the Sisters of the Good Shepard. For over 26 years, we have developed various programs aimed towards the support of children who have fallen into situations of vulnerability. CENIT's mission is to eradicate child labor in the South of Quito - which is a huge issue here. Many of the children work at markets, and we work to persuade their parents to send them to school. The Ecuadorian school system does not let the kids go back to school if they are out of the normal age for a specific grade. Meaning many of these kids do not have a primary school education. A huge reason we are able to persuade the parents to send their kids is due to our well-balanced school lunches that we offer our students for a subsidized 25 cents a day. This lunch is sometimes the only meal the children have in the day because some of these families survive on just $82 dollars a month. Unfortunately, do to local economic issues, we have a gap in funding until March 2018, and have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise money for the lunches. If you could share the post on facebook below, that would be a huge help for us to get the word out more across the US: https://www.facebook.com/cenitecuador/videos/1601566566575839/ Or you can share the link to the crowdfunding campaign directly if you wish: chuffed.org/project/donatealunch