In July 2022, Bret and his son Dexter Gundersen joined a group of volunteers to build a chicken farm to provide jobs and food to refugees in Malawi. While there, they met and became dear friends with people who are hard working, honest, and trying to feed their families. Since that time, worldwide inflation and currency fluctuations caused food prices in Malawi to spike, in some cases doubling or tripling in cost. For refugees already struggling to afford food, this created a life-and-death crisis.

One elementary school in the refugee camp is run completely by volunteers, with little or no resources for books and learning materials. In 2022, over 350 children attended this school, but some families were keeping their children home to work to earn money for food, while other children left school during the day, hoping to find food at home. During this time school attendance dropped as low as 45%. In an effort to keep these children in school, and healthy enough to learn, we started Feeding Hope and Hunger to provide a nourishing school lunch to each of these kids, every day they're in school.