Welcome to the Leap! This issue is packed with food-filled stories from the children you support. Click each story's button to watch videos with all the ingredients for a serving of joy.
Junior’s home, the Solomon Islands, is one of the most vulnerable places in the world to climate change.
‘In my village, the houses are by the sea. When the rising sea level spoils or destroys our gardens, I usually feel sad and sometimes I feel sick because I have nothing to eat, because the rising sea level has damaged our food.’ – Junior.
But, with you on his side, Junior and his community are prepared for the future. Save the Children are supporting them through training sessions on climate-resilient farming, soil management, and educating communities about which crops will grow best in extreme weather. This means better harvests and more food on the table.
‘I am happy today during the training. I learnt some things like mixing soil, how to make compost, how to plant plants. I am happy. After the training we planted taro, kumara, tomatoes, cabbage, and beans.’
Recipe cards at the ready, as Junior shows us how to make kumara, a sweet potato soup.
Junior, 16, preparing food at his home.
Junior inspecting taro plants he’s growing in the community garden.
Photo credit: Conor Ashleigh / Save the Children
How else your support is helping
Matt Grayson / Save the Children
Members of You, Me & Us outside the food pantry they've set up in Sheffield.
Matt Grayson / Save the Children
Alyssiah, nine, and Akieal, three, look through the pantry food together with mum, Beth, in Sheffield.
Matt Grayson / Save the Children
Kozi, nine months old, smiles to camera at the food pantry.
Photo credit: Matt Grayson / Save the Children.
Make tortillas with Brenda
Brenda is nine years old and loves helping her mum make tortillas by hand. They do it every day. It’s a special tradition that’s fading in her home in Yucatán, Mexico. But Brenda has happily shared with us how it’s done.
Thanks to you, Brenda, her brother Diego, and her community are learning about health, nutrition and good hygiene practices to prevent diseases through a local Save the Children community club.
Keep scrolling to see February's Photo of the Month.
Adriana Loureiro Fernandez / Save The Children
4-year-old Said eats lunch in an early years centre in Bolivia which Save the Children stocked with school supplies. Said enjoys playing with the toys with his friends there. He’s eating charque for his lunch, a traditional Bolivian recipe that’s considered an ancestral dish.
Not in the news
Germany has found itself swimming in potatoes, after its biggest potato harvest for 25 years. Nicknamed the ‘potato flood’, there are so many potatoes, they have been given away for free to shelters, schools and soup kitchens, as well as two lorries full being sent to Ukraine. Talk about a potato flood doing good!
