Matched food programs

ERDO is a founding member of the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFGB).  By ownership of CFGB, 15 Canadian church denominations and church-based agencies work collaboratively to pool resources, bringing a Christian response to hunger.  Through our membership, donations to food relief and food security have the potential to be multiplied by matching funds available from the Government of Canada through Global Affairs Canada (GAC).

The easiest way to think of the CFGB is as an actual bank!

Each of the 15 church groups have their own account.  With the funds (equity) that each partner has in their account they are able to provide food relief, emergency food aid and agriculture programs in places that are food insecure.  The goal in every situation is to ensure longer term strategies for food security, so communities are able to feed themselves.

There are several ways ERDO is able to increase the amount of money in our account:

1.  Cash donations directly to the CFGB directed to the ERDO-PAOC account. These are receipted by CFGB.

2.  Cash donations directly to ERDO. These are receipted by ERDO and used in our CFGB food programs.

3.  Grain donations by farmers at their local grain elevator.  Most elevators across Canada are familiar with the CFGB and will cash out grain and designate the proceeds to the ERDO-PAOC account at CFGB if instructed to do so.  These grain donations are receipted by CFGB.

Katana DRC Conservation Agriculture
Matched 1 :1
Increased food security for 300 households (2,100 people) through provision of seeds, tools, and conservation agriculture training.

Kenya -CITAM Goat Restocking Project
Matched 3:1
Increased livelihood sustainability for 300 vulnerable pastoralist families (2,100 people) by providing each family with 6 female goats, allowing pastoralists to strengthen their herds post-drought.

SMM Food Security
Matched 3:1
Increased food security for 720 households (3,600 people) through community disaster risk reduction, natural resource management training, and income generation strategies.

Karamoja Uganda Climate Change and Food Security
Matched 1:1
Increased food security for 300 households (2,000 people) through provision of seeds, tools, conservation agriculture training, and marketing strategy training.

Haiti Food Security
Matched 1:1
Increased food security for 200 households (1,000 people) through the provision of seeds, plant cuttings, tools, and conservation agriculture training.

Bangladesh Nutrition Supplementary Feeding
Matched 4:1
• High energy biscuits distributed to 6,800 pre-school children two times daily, six days a week
• Distributed de-worming medicine to children, teachers, and volunteers twice a year
• Provided monthly trainings in nutrition and hygiene for 3,200 mothers

Somalia Cash Transfers
Matched 4:1
Provided monthly mobile cash transfers of $70 USD for 800 households (5,694 people) for 3 months in the Sool and Sanaag regions in Somaliland.

South Sudan Refugee Supplementary Nutrition
Matched 4:1
Provided nutritional food supplements for 2,000 pregnant and nursing mothers, and 550 persons with special needs.

Supplementary Food Assistance for Vulnerable Children Phase 1
Matched 4:1
Provided supplementary nutritional support for 7,000 children between the ages of 24 and 59 months and 4,575 children and youth with special needs in Tshlotsho, Zimbabwe.

Supplementary Food Assistance for Vulnerable Children Phase 2
Matched 4:1
Provided supplementary nutritional support for 12,400 children in Tshlotsho, Zimbabwe.

Zimbabwe Drought Response –
Matched 4:1
Provided food assistance to 890 households (4,450 people) in Masvingo for six months.

Yemen Emergency Food Assistance
Matched 4:1
Provided emergency food assistance for 800 households (5,598 people) in Taiz Governate for six months