The outcome we claim, and what we do not claim
The founding deed sets out a purpose of carrying out food assistance programmes for communities in need, at Pasal 3.A.11. All the work described on this site rests on that.
The foundation’s current activity is focused on school food assistance in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara. We are choosing one location and doing it properly rather than many at once.
The outcome we claim
One portion of food, safely prepared, served inside a controlled time and temperature window, from a kitchen built to the national standard and sited close enough to the schools it serves to hold that window.
We state it plainly, and we state only one, because an outcome left unstated will be judged by somebody else’s measure.
That outcome can be checked. Core temperature when cooking, temperature at service, the interval between them, and the records that go with them are written down, not estimated.
The service radius in the government standard exists for the same reason. Food safety guidance places cooked food held below 60°C for more than two hours in the risk phase, and the interval between cooking and eating is the one thing a decision about where to put a kitchen can genuinely change. That is why the six kilometre radius is the measure our siting analysis is built on.
Because the outcome we claim is a safe portion, our failure is recognisable too: a kitchen that does not run on a school day, an empty temperature record, a missing retained sample. We publish those records precisely so that they can be checked.
Source: Adapted from the WHO Five Keys to Safer Food and HACCP principles (Codex Alimentarius)
What we are aiming for
These are the outcomes the work is for. We are not presenting them as results yet, because one kitchen cannot prove them, and we would rather show you the evidence when it exists.
- A nutritious meal on every school day, in places where that does not happen today.
- Better attendance and better learning, which is what school feeding is for and what we expect to see.
- A contribution to bringing stunting in East Nusa Tenggara down from 37 per cent toward the national average.
The foundation is not part of any government programme today, does not represent any government body, and holds no designation from any agency. Entering the national programme is the plan, not a present fact.
How the work is done
Built to the national standard
The kitchen is built to the specification the national nutrition agency sets for an SPPG unit, and sited inside the six kilometre service radius of the schools it serves, so the interval between cooking and eating stays inside the safe window.
One kitchen, done properly
We build or retrofit one kitchen until it meets hygiene and sanitation standards, train local cooks, then run it every school day. A kitchen that stops produces nothing.
Evidence for every stage
Funds are released in stages. For each stage we publish evidence, and that evidence unlocks the next release.
How we will know
Before the first portion is served we record the starting position: the number of school days in the school year, the condition of the room that will become the kitchen, the water and power supply and how reliable each is, and which ingredient suppliers are available in that district.
Once the kitchen is running, what we measure is the controls that were run and the records that go with them: core temperature when cooking, temperature at service, the pot to plate interval, retained samples, and actual cost against budget.
No measurement of any child, including attendance records and body measurements, is taken before written consent from a parent or guardian under Law No. 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection. Those consent forms have not yet been drafted, so we have collected no child’s data.
The limits of what we do today
The foundation’s current activity is focused on school food assistance in Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara.
The foundation does not yet hold the catering business registration, and no food will be prepared before it does. It also does not offer catering to the public and sells no service of any kind.
If the focus of the work changes, this page is updated first.
Why this page exists
Charitable money often stops not because it disappears, but because nobody can see where it went. When delivery cannot be checked, donors give less, and they give to whoever shouts loudest rather than whoever delivers.