Long-Term Impact
Your monthly donation helps sustain community-led, long-term efforts. As a monthly supporter, your stand in solidarity with children, families, and communities, helping to nurture solutions rooted in their knowledge, leadership, and vision for lasting change.
BEYOND HANDOUTS
The communities where we work are not looking for hand-outs – they are driving lasting change and forging their own path forward. The women’s self-help groups in Addis Ababa are just one great example of the sustainable, life-changing work your monthly gifts helps make possible.
COST EFFECTIVE
Monthly giving means low administration costs, which means that more of your money goes to where it’s needed most: reducing the impact of poverty on children and supporting community-driven initiatives.
Beyond Food
From food aid to sustainable food security
In addition to funding nutrition programs, your monthly donation supports communities in growing, buying, and producing nutritious food, helping families achieve sustainable food security.
Beyond Books
From school supplies to quality education
Your monthly gift increases access to quality early childhood and primary education, especially for girls. You’ll help equip schools, recruit and train teachers, install water and sanitation facilities, and educate parents and communities on the value of education.
Beyond Charity
From charity to long-lasting change
Your monthly gift supports people, especially women, to earn income and contribute to household and community decision-making. For example, through micro-finance and skills development, families lead the way toward long-term, sustainable change that benefits children.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
BOLIVIA
Early childhood education programs in La Paz, Bolivia provide daily meals, an excellent education and before- and after-school activities thanks to monthly supporters. Well-run, safe spaces with qualified educators provide parents with peace of mind, freeing them to earn incomes knowing their children are being cared for and nourished. These centres fill important gaps in Bolivia’s social services safety net, and help bridge the growing inequities in Bolivia, as well aspromoting child rights and child development in the community.
School Gardens
CANADA
Monthly donors support school and community gardens -- vibrant, hands-on ways to connect students, teachers, Elders, and other community members with the source of healthy, nutritious food. Gardens build knowledge of nutrition and healthy eating, as well as community spirit and connection across generations to important cultural traditions that revolve around the land and food grown on it. With your support, students in First Nations communities enjoy reaping the harvest of their hard work in autumn to prepare and serve a meal to their Elders in celebration and thanks.
Photo: Neyaashiinigmiing
Agricultural Training
Ghana & Ethiopia
Monthly donors support community-led agricultural training programs which help increase crop productivity, boost resilience to climate change, and create sustainable income from agriculture. Smallholder farm families are better able to feed their families consistently, despite the challenges imposed by a harsh and changing climate. Monthly donors’ support for agricultural inputs and training is improving food security for hundreds of thousands of people in northern Ghana and the Eastern Amhara Region of Ethiopia.
Community Capacity Building
ethiopia, ghana, uganda
Village Savings and Loan Associations, Self-Help Groups and other micro-finance initiatives provide participants – primarily women – with business and marketing skills, knowledge of credit and savings, and the means to earn and control their own income. Monthly donors’ support for groups like these enable parents to increase their household earnings and engage in sustainable livelihoods, resulting in lasting, community-led change that ultimately helps improve children’s nutrition and health.
School Nutrition
uganda
School nutrition programs remain a foundational element of CFTC’s work in Uganda. Providing healthy, nutritious breakfasts, lunches and snacks keeps children in school and helps them learn effectively when there. School nutrition programs relieve parents from the burden of providing every meal, enabling more equitable resource distribution within households and reducing hunger among children.
PROUDLY CANADIAN
We’re an independent, secular development agency founded and operating in Canada since 1986: that’s 40 years of trusted, community-led impact.
REGISTERED, ACCREDITED, BEST-PRACTICE GOVERNANCE
Kinvia, previously known as Canadian Feed The Children, works in solidarity with communities as they build local, self-determined, sustainable systems to provide food for their children, youth, and families across generations.
Our core belief is that food and nourishment is a human right. Together with our donors, we are committed to community-driven solutions that address the unique needs of children, youth, and their communities.
In 2025, Kinvia worked with 125 communities in five countries, reaching over 234,000 people.
We're an accredited member of Imagine Canada and we remain steadfastly committed to financial transparency, accountability, cost efficiency, and social impact. We have been recognized as a Top 100 Rated Charity by Charity Intelligence for nearly a decade, most recently in 2024.
COMMITTED TO OPENNESS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
Our financials are independently reviewed and published each year, while our volunteer Board of Directors sets and exceeds the highest standards in governance. You can count on the highest standards when it comes to use and stewardship of your generous donations.
Your partnership helps change grow. Kinvia strengthens local food systems and economies by working alongside communities and supporting community-led solutions. What begins with local knowledge and initiative can grow into lasting change — strengthening children, families, communities, and the food systems they need to thrive. For more information about our financials please download our latest Annual Report.