LOVE'S KITCHEN

Problem

Approximately 49% of all Belizean children live in multidimensional poverty. Belize has an approximate 1.8% infant mortality rate, approximately three times that of the United States. Nutrition is still a concern: 19% of Belizean children are affected by growth stunting. Belize is also frequently hit by devastating tropical storms, and during the aftermath of such storms, food shortages only increase.

Objective

To love and nurture thousands of children throughout Belize, Central America. RAMM’s mission is to meet children in three aspects: physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Just as Jesus fed thousands of people with five loaves of bread and five fish, we intend to feed children in impoverished communities and villages, where just a single meal can change a child for all eternity.

Goals

To feed a hot, freshly prepared meal to not less than 12,000 children every year. To create opportunities to meet additional physical needs, such as housing or medical needs, and to minister to the spiritual needs of those we feed.

Solution

To build a mobile kitchen, that will be deployed to impoverished communities and villages throughout Belize, feeding the bellies of children who often struggle to get a single meal in a day. To be able to serve as one more emergency response team, serving food in areas struck hardest by tropical storms and other natural disasters. There will never be any fee charged for a meal served out of this mobile kitchen.

Project Outline

1. Demolition current food truck RV and inventory all usable equipment (stove/oven/sink/hood/plumbing/etc.)

2. Acquire trailer (preferred specs 8.5’ x 16’ tandem axle)

3. Design layout of mobile kitchen

4. Acquire additional materials/equipment necessary to build out mobile kitchen

5. Build mobile kitchen

6. Transport trailer to Belize

Expect to have mobile kitchen ready to be transported to Belize by January 1, 2022.

Minimum Specs of Mobile Kitchen

1. Refrigerator

2. 8 stove top burners

3. Oven

4. Exhaust hood

5. 2 sinks

6. Water supply tank & brown water tank

7. Generator & shore power hook up

8. Propane tank

9. 6’ stainless prep table

BUDGET

Trailer: $‎6,500

Additional equipment and materials to build out trailer: $‎2,500

Transportation cost to Belize (includes shipping van & trailer): $‎4,000

Total:  $‎ 13,500

• RAMM has already received through a generous donation a RV that was previously outfitted as a mobile kitchen. The RV is no longer road worthy, but the kitchen equipment and other materials within it will be used to outfit the new food trailer.
• RAMM has $5,000 to begin the project. RAMM intends on raising the additional amount of $8,500 over the course of the next two months.
• RAMM also intends to acquire a truck or passenger van with sufficient towing capacity to tow the mobile kitchen. RAMM will raise the additional funds to purchase the van and/or acquire the van via a gift donation.