This April, we have sent €500 worth of e’Pap Porridge to our Sky Is The Limit Children’s Centre in Uganda.
e’Pap is a “high energy vitamin and mineral enriched” food supplement which has been developed to tackle Africa’s food and nutrition crisis. The belief is that a balanced diet is a key factor in fighting against malnutrition, poverty and disease.
Pre-cooked maize, Soya proteins, vitamins, minerals, and the optional flavours of Vanilla, Strawberry or Banana are combined to create an affordable, nutritional Porridge for those who don’t have access to a balanced diet or have a compromised immune system. No cooking is required to make the Porridge, it is simply mixed with water, milk or yoghurt.
Whether or not children are well nourished during their first years of life has a profound effect on their health, ability to learn, to communicate, think analytically, socialize effectively and adapt to new environments and people.
Many of the children attending the Sky Is The Limit School walk long distances to school without breakfast. This makes it very difficult for them to concentrate at school, with some pupils dropping out as a result. Some children at the School have parents who cannot afford a pack lunch, so they steal from the other children to survive. Although Ecologia has been providing support for school lunches to address this, e’Pap gives additional supplement to the children who have the greatest need.
In 2016, thanks to a wonderful donation of €500 from Roberto Savio, we were able to provide e’Pap to 17 children at the Sky Is The Limit School for 2 months. The Porridge helped the children by:
Giving them the energy to concentrate in class and cope with the demands of the day.
Improving their health over time, particularly those living with HIV.
Reducing visits to healthcare facilities from 15% to 8%.
Increasing the children’s weight: there was an increase of 20%.
Alleviating skin problems, reducing absenteeism through sickness and escapism, and
developing social skills as the children eat together with other children.
“I would like to thank the school for providing e’Pap to us because it has improved my concentration in class. I am sure to pass my final end of term examinations in 2016.
When I took my weight at the beginning of the term, my teacher told me that I was under weight for my age. She weighed me again after the first week of taking e’Pap and it had increased from 21 to 23 kg! I’m very sure that miracle was done by the special e’Pap meal I eat from school.”
Hillary, Sky Is The Limit School
Mr Savio, seeing the importance of e’Pap to the lives of the children we support, again donated €500 to Ecologia this month. We sent this to Sky Is The Limit School so that they can provide this vital food supplement to the children at the School. If you would like to help support the children at the Sky Is The Limit Children’s Centre, please donate what you can.
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Susie has 30+ experience as a creative copywriter, editor, and proofreader, starting out as a 20-year-old copywriter in the Mad Men world of early 1990s advertising in South Africa. Ever since, she’s had a love affair with creative conceptualisation, thinking outside of the box, writing to a deadline, and being thrown in the deep end!
She took an MSc in Publishing at Edinburgh Napier University as a mature student, in 2015, and continues to keep herself busy working as a copy-editor, proofreader and copywriter in book publishing, corporate communications, and publishing project management.
Apart from her love of working with independent authors, Susie has a fondness for working in the third sector and likes to use her corporate communications and marketing experience to support projects close to her heart. She has lived and worked in the Findhorn area for 25 years, and has been involved in a number of third sector projects and organisations, and family businesses.
Working at Ecologia Youth Trust helps Susie to live in integrity with her values of supporting the next generation to be the best that they can be, and she sees it as a way to give back to Mama Africa, the beloved continent on which she was born.
Ellen joined the Ecologia team in June 2018 as Marketing and Communications Manager. Ellen has lived in Scotland for 6 years and has worked for non-profit and charitable organisations across varied fields. She currently shares her passion for helping young people through Ecologia Youth Trust and she works as a dancer and dance teacher in her spare time.
Robyn is the Associate Director of International Projects, having previously worked within the team as a Project Development and Marketing Officer from April 2019 until May 2021. As Associate Director, Robyn is co-leading the International side of Ecologia with Founder and Director, Liza Hollingshead, bringing a new energy into Ecologia as they look towards the future of the charity.
Liza is the founder of Ecologia and Director of International Projects. She was born and educated in South Africa and worked there as a high school teacher. She moved to live in the Findhorn Community in 1974. She started Ecologia in 1995 after being introduced to Dmitry Morozov, the founder of Kitezh Children’s Community in Russia, and was inspired to support the community in its mission to rescue orphaned children from institutions and give them homes, families and education in a supportive environment.
This led to projects supporting disadvantaged youth and children in South East Asia and in East Africa. TRead more about Liza’s story here.
