Your support helps children and families access the nutritious food they need to thrive. And they need your help now more than ever.
Your donations have helpedHowever, there is still more to we must do
Children, youth, and their families are confronting a complex web of urgent challenges and inflation, rising costs, and the recent Canada Post strike have put our critical programs at risk. You can help!
Hunger continues to rise globally, critical programs are at risk, and families are facing impossible decisions that impact their children’s futures.
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How Your Ongoing Support Makes a Difference
Sifen is filled with hope and dreaming big thanks to quality education.
At the young age of six, Sifen is full of life and determination and her journey of hope began with your support.
In her community in Ethiopia, she is thriving at an early childhood education centre, a place where she learns, plays, and receives nutritious meals every day. For children like Sifen, these meals mean more than just nourishment—they give her the energy to embrace learning with enthusiasm.
Gemechu is the education supervisor for the district, and he works to ensure that access to quality education is one of the shared values of the community. He remembers how food insecurity, inadequate facilities, and limited resources hindered children’s learning experiences.
Thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, new early childhood education centres are equipped with safe bathroom facilities, teaching aids, and nutritious school meals and are transforming education for more than 500 students across four schools in the district. This is the foundation that will allow children like Sifen to pursue their dreams and give back to their community one day.
Marion no longer has to choose between going to school and having healthy meals.
In Uganda, seven-year-old Marion’s future was at risk when her father, Francis, faced an impossible choice: feed his family or pay her school fees. As a fisherman, Francis struggled to make ends meet, fearing Marion might never return to school.
Thanks to donor support, Marion’s story changed. Francis joined a Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA), learned to grow a home garden, and ensured his children had nutritious meals and access to education. Today, Marion excels in school, and Francis proudly says, “Her performance has been amazing—I know she’ll have a bright future.”
Hope grows in abundance for Milenka and Lourdes.
Lourdes is an innovative and entrepreneurial single mother to her four-year-old daughter, Milenka, who she is raising with a love of flowers and nourishing food in Bolivia.
Today, Lourdes can focus on teaching Milenka how to water their brimming, thriving garden. But, that was not always the case.
Late last year, Bolivia emerged from its hottest winter and worst drought on record. And recent forest fires affected Indigenous families the most. A renewed focus on water systems and climate-smart farming was urgently needed to manage the extreme heat and water scarcities that are likely to continue well into the future.
With the help of Kinvia’s climate-smart farming programs, Lourdes now grows both food to eat and flowers to sell using precision irrigation methods like a micro-sprinkler and drip irrigation. Lourdes is “able to save more water for irrigation” and grow more. She is thrilled to report that today, she no longer buys fresh produce for her family since she grows enough nourishing food for Milenka and her siblings.
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More Than 35-Years Experience Nourishing Children
Kinvia is an international non-governmental organization with over 35 years of experience supporting children, youth, and their communities in overcoming systemic barriers to their rights to nutritious and culturally appropriate food.
Our core belief is that food and nourishment is a human right. To us, food is life.
We are here with communities who are building local, self-reliant, sustainable systems to provide food for their children, youth, and families across generations.
We work in solidarity with communities to impact all areas of nourishment at all stages of their lives, including income generation, education, gender equality, racial justice, and climate impacts.
As an award-winning, 5-star rated charity, we envision a world where children, youth, and their communities thrive, realizing their full potential.
At the core of our approach are people. We build partnerships to strengthen local capacity through knowledge sharing, mobilizing resources, and nurturing new ideas and solutions. We work alongside change-makers to actively question and change systems to improve the lives of children, youth, and families.
I donate to Kinvia because children should not be hungry. It’s up to us to make sure this doesn’t happen.
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What are my payment options?
You can make a one-time or monthly online donation to Kinvia using MasterCard, Visa, American Express or PayPal. You can also donate by calling 1-800-387-1221 between 9am – 5pm EST, Monday to Friday.
Can I 'designate' my donation to a specific country?
Yes. The online donation form gives you the option to designate your donation to one of our five countries of operation in Bolivia, Canada, Ethiopia, Ghana or Uganda.
How can I stay up-to-date on the impact of my donation?
Donors receive our monthly eNewsletter with updates from the children, families and communities you help support. You can also come online whenever you like to read our blog or download donor publications.
Will I receive a tax receipt for my charity donation?
Yes, all charity donations to Kinvia are tax receipted. When you donate online, you will receive an immediate charitable tax receipt in PDF format by email. When you donate by phone, you can choose to receive an electronic receipt or have one mailed to you, usually within two weeks.
For our supporters' convenience, and in order to keep administrative expenses low, one income tax receipt per year is issued to monthly donors. This is sent each February for the previous year.
Kinvia’s charitable registration number is 11883 0983 RR0001. See the Government of Canada’s policy statement for charitable tax receipts for more information about charity tax receipts.
Is Kinvia affiliated with a specific religion?
Kinvia has no religious affiliation. While we may work with local partners who are affiliated with a specific religion, we are dedicated to helping children regardless of their race, religion or gender.
Does Kinvia belong to a 'parent' organization?
Kinvia was founded in Canada in 1986 as an independent international development agency and we still remain that way today.