FOOD FOR HIS CHILDREN, Inc

Our main goal is for individuals, families and communities to become all God created them to be so that their children have food to eat, education, medical care and are able to achieve their dreams. To know their gifts and talents and use them for the benefit of their family and community. We also aim to make the ministry as self sustaining as possible so the reliance on US funding is minimal. To do this, we have purchased land in Tanzania to have a goat breeding farm and development center that will also provide income through farm tours, a chai tea shop, a cultural center, a community center available for rent, training center, internet café, a creamery to make products with goat milk to sell to tourists and safari companies and lodges in the area and gift shop with items made by Food for His Children families.
We would love to see churches filled with people who know the Lord in a personal way and are living as Christ would
•Small groups that pray together, share in their faith journey and study the Bible to gain a closer relationship with God and each other
Communities empowering each other to live out their gifts and passions, becoming all God created them to be.
•Families that can provide for their family, send children to school and pay for expenses like medical bills
•Communities that support each other in times of need
•Communities teaching other villages what they have learned
•Communities solving issues and providing solutions independently

Goal: Increase family income for FFHC program participants
Strategies:
• Provision of dairy goat
• Provide training in animal husbandry, agriculture, entrepreneurship, health & environment, and savings
• Goal planning and mentoring
• Offer savings group to all families
• Business planning assistance
• Provision of veterinary care
Goal: Improve health of FFHC families and communities
Strategies:
• Teach 15 Points of a Healthy Home
• Teach about Health and Sanitation
• Microloan of a dairy goat
• Training in agriculture resulting in increased crops
• Use of manure for crops
• Training about importance of protein, fruits and vegetables for nutrition
Goal: Improve environment of families & communities
Strategies:
• Teach about environmental conservation
• Provision of trees to plant
• Training about contour farming to prevent soil erosion
• Provision of drum pits for trash disposal
• Environmental activity days
Goal: Restored relationships
Strategies:
• Teach using Discipleship for Development principles
• Provision of case management services to all goat recipients
• Provision of pastoral care services to all program participants
• Identify and address root cause of poverty in each family
• Develop community within each project site
Goal: Children complete primary and secondary school
Strategies:
• Provide training to parents in animal husbandry, agriculture, entrepreneurship and savings so they can increase their income
• Offer savings groups at all sites for capital when needed for larger school expenses
• Assist with business planning so families have more income to use for school expenses
• Provide coaching and mentoring to work towards goals
• Provision of a dairy goat as a means of capital and form of saving assets as the goats reproduce
• Provide problem solving support and connection to appropriate resources to parents who struggle to pay school expenses
• Provide school supplies for program participants once per year
Goal: Improve spiritual health of families
Strategies:
• Provide pastoral care and Bible study
• Provide Bible based training
• Use Discipleship for Development
• Provide case management services to all families
• Show Christian Films at sites to teach about Jesus
• Provide marriage seminars
• One on one case management and mentoring for goat recipients
Goal: 80% of families utilize best practices for good goat management
Strategies:
• Monthly training in animal husbandry
• Follow up and assessment at recipient’s home
• Provision of vaccination & deworming clinics
• Provision of a dairy goat buck that is not cross bred for all sites
• Provision of veterinary consultation & care to goat recipients
• Collaborate with government livestock officers
Goal: 60 % of program participants harvest more crops
Strategies:
• Monthly agriculture training in all sites
• Demonstration of agriculture training practices at the Farm & Innovation Center site
• Follow up/evaluation with program participants

Food for His Children currently has 25 Tanzanian employees,. We have1 part time Tanzanian pastor and 2 agriculture specialists. Our Program Manager in Tanzania, Honorina Honorati, has a Bachelor degree in Nonprofit Management and diploma in Community Development. Our Operations Manager has a Masters Degree in Development Economics and a Bachelors degree in Rural Development. Our Program Coordinator, has a Bachelor degree in Sociology. We have 10 Field Officers/Social Workers who each have a caseload of families and work with them one on one to identify and achieve their goals. We have a Livestock Specialist and 2 Livestock Officers who care for sick goats, provide routine preventative medical care and train all FFHC recipients how to do basic care for their goats. Our Planning Officer has a Bachelor's degree in Planning and Urban Development, he works on special projects, implementing program assessments and measurements. We have 2 Trainers with teaching degrees. Our Marketing and Communications Officer has a Diploma in Community Development, is a creative writer and a skilled photographer. We have 2 Team Assistants who float between teams to help all staff members and also act as drivers for field workers who do not yet have a motorcycle license. Our Administrative Coordinator is skilled in graphic design, event coordination and a multitude of other administrative skills. Our We are building a Farm and Innovation Center in Tanzania to breed dairy goats and provide on site training for all recipients. This will be income producing via tourism in Tanzania to reduce the need for ongoing donations. In the US, we have two full time employees. Pastor Kerrie Holschbach is the Executive Director, who is in charge of donor and community engagement, program development in Tanzania, spiritual development of staff in Tanzania and fundraising. Kerrie is a Licensed Pastor and Social Worker with over 31 years of experience working with diverse groups of impoverished, disadvantaged and disabled individuals, most recently with people who are being released from prison. She is the founder of Food for His Children and has traveled to Tanzania 18 times since 2005. She travels to Tanzania 2 times annually to provide program oversight, capacity building, and staff support and development. Hwa Lee is our Chief Operations Officer. She comes to FFHC with over fifteen years of experience in operations, supply chain, project management, business development, planning, customer service and sales, serving in the leadership team at global corporations such as Brooks Brothers and Bally. She spearheaded various corporate initiatives to improve business practice, organization, and technology world-wide. Along with demonstrating professional excellence in streamlining processes for productivity, Hwa is passionate about serving her community and supporting people to fulfill their God-given potential.

Since 2008, Food for His Children (FFHC) has provided Christ centered community development and humanitarian services to families and communities in rural Karatu, Tanzania, targeting those with income below $1 per day. Our vision is to eradicate extreme poverty so that children and families have food to eat, medical care, education and the ability to work towards their dreams and that families and communities can become all God created them to be.

We desire to see families and communities able to sustain themselves without relying on outside resources. We do this by providing a micro loan of a dairy goat, pastoral care, faith-based training in entrepreneurship, animal husbandry, agriculture, health, environment, leadership, and savings; one on one case management and coaching, goal planning, and veterinary care services. Food for His Children works in over 40 sub villages in Karatu District serving over 400 families over 2500 people.


Food for His Children currently works with over 400 families in 40 sub villages, 13 project sites, including over 2500 people. We have over 1200 goats currently in our project and several that families have sold to provide their needs, send their children to school, start businesses and build stronger homes. Our training curriculum includes 16 topics each quarter. As previously mentioned, we are ready to start a breeding farm and development center to provide income for Food for His Children in Tanzania and reduce the need for outside funding. We plan to have a family sponsorship program for US and Tanzania families to walk together in this journey, encouraging one another. Once our farm is started, we will also provide goat milk and training in agriculture, animal husbandry, entrepreneurship, saving and budgeting and conservation skills to the primary school students next to our farm property.

Food for His Children families are better able to provide school fees for their children, pay for medical care, and provide nutritious foods for their family to have 3 healthy meals a day. They have started businesses, are working in community to save money for future needs, they have increased their income and doubled or tripled their crop production. They have a steady income provided from their dairy goats. FFHC families have seen marriages restored, recovery from addictions and healing from severe mental illnesses. Once seen as outcasts or having a self perception of such, program beneficiaries have increased confidence and are seen as role models in their communities. They develop better relationships with God, self, others and the rest of creation.