EDFK works cooperatively with VAMOS!, an independent service organization founded in 1986 by Bill and Patty Coleman and Ike Patch. VAMOS! currently supports 82 separate educational, health and nutrition projects in Mexico. EDFK provides the food for many of the feeding programs within the VAMOS! network.

Every dollor contributed to or raised by EDFK goes directly and immediately to feeding hungry kids.  Volunteers handle the local administration of funds.  All administrative and promotional costs are covered by the sponsoring churches.  Funding decisions are made on the basis of the potential success of the local project: educational attainment, health progress, family well-being, and the assurance that every dollar will be used for food for kids.  EDFK projects are strictly non-denominational.

To read more about VAMOS!, go to http://www.vamos.org.mx.

You are currently visiting the home pages of EDFK, Connecticut, which is coordinated on the East Coast by the First Congregational Church of Southington, Connecticut.  As a Partner Church, we provide support to VAMOS!  In addition to this, EDFK Connecticut has begun to provide support to an orphanage in Guayaquil, Ecuador beginning in 2005.

In the five years since its founding, the several EDFK partners have provided more than 500,000 meals to needy children at VAMOS! projects. We have now raised more than $ 250,000 to support the feeding programs. Through an EDFK friend, a donation of $ 100,000 was made in 2004 to VAMOS! to enable the purchase of Casa Tatic, the multi-purpose building in downtown Cuernavaca serving street children and indigent seniors in the area.

Every Dollar Feeds Kids has now been granted 501(c)(3) tax exemption status by the IRS. All donations to the program are now channeled directly through EDFK partners and are fully tax deductible.

Every Dollar Feeds Kids Mission

Every year, millions of people die from malnutrition and related illnesses.  Of the thousands who die every day from hunger and nutrition-related disease, more than half are children.  The mission of Every Dollar Feeds Kids is to help reduce these terrifying statistics through nutritional support to poverty-stricken children.

Hundreds of millions of children go to bed hungry every night.  Even where schools are available, many of these children are too weak to attend.  Every Dollar Feeds Kids seeks to enable children to learn by supplying them with adequate nutrition.