Flemingdon Gateway Mission* has begun a new health and nutrition program in partnership with the Ministry of Health. The program helps immigrant children discover healthy eating and living through hands on, creative activities. Not only do they learn to shop for nutritious food and to prepare simple, attractive and healthy meals, they are learning to work together, developing healthy attitudes and growing their self-esteem. Support and guidance for the program comes from parents, adult volunteers and Leaders in Training (LIT’S) living in the Flemingdon Park area. You can help in this important ministry!

• $5.50  will buy 10 transit tickets for a child to travel to shopping and other events
• $10  provides healthy snacks for one child for one week
• $20  provides a nutritious meal for one child every day for one month
• $25  provides 10 transit tickets for an adult volunteer to travel with children to shopping and other events
• $50  runs the Health and Nutrition Program for one day
• $75  provides an activities coordinator for one day

*Over 70 Muslim and Christian children, from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Iraq, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Sudan and Canada come together in Flemingdon Gateway Mission’s after-school program. Supported in part by Presbyterians Sharing, the mission offers six main programs: homework support, leadership training, health and nutrition, arts and crafts, dance and structured play.