Why Sponsor Don Bosco Cares Food Bill?

You can get in touch with Don Bosco Care online at www.donboscocare.ie, on twitter at https://twitter.com/donboscocare or by emailing media@donboscocare.ie. They can be reached over the phone by calling 01 8336009, or via post or in person at 12 Clontarf Road, Clontarf, Dublin 3

What We Do
Don Bosco Care provides safe and secure homes to young people who can’t live in their own homes. We encourage the young residents to attend school, and return in the evening to a welcoming home where they have access to social care and counselling. Our expert staff creates a caring and family atmosphere to ensure each young person can get the care and attention they deserve. Don Bosco Care’s mission is not only to provide shelter and support to young teenagers but to ensure that they are given every opportunity to achieve their potential.

Description of the Project
Don Bosco Care food bill represents a significant amount of our yearly expenditure. In 2013 Don Bosco Care total food bill came to €47,202.00. Divide this among the one hundred young people in our care, this amounts to €470.02 per resident.

Why Support the Project
In Don Bosco Care we believe that it is of vital importance to provide young people in our care with a healthy balanced diet. Some of the benefits for teenagers in having a balanced diet include.

Better Grades
Education is Don Bosco Cares vision to break the cycle of poverty among young people. According to American dietician Jill Corleno “Eating regular meals especially breakfast may help teens to do better in school” (Corleone, 2015).

Better Mood
Food items such as fruit vegatables and dairy products contain serotonin. This is a neurotransmitter that can improve mood, enhance sleep and reduce the sensation of pain (Zaykoski, 2013). For example oranges, bracoli and sporuts all contain folic acid which help boost serotonin level and lead to an imporvement in mood (Zaykoski, 2013).The young people in the care of Don Bosco receive fruit and veagtables as part of a balanced diet.
Recently the department of Social Portection E.U intervention cheese scheme which provided cheese to organisations who helped people from disavantaged backgrounds has ceased. The decsion to stop the scheme has placed a significant cost onto Don Bosco Cares already mounting food bill. Dairy products such as cheese have also been linked to an improvement in the mood of young people because they contain the simplesugar lactose (Zaykoski, 2013). Simple sugars help boost serotonin levels, which can help improve mood or make it easier to fall asleep (Zaykoski, 2013).

The Benfits for you.
According to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development corperate social responsibility can be defined as “continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and contribute to economic development while improving the life of the workforce and their families, as well as the local community and society at large”. Don Bosco Care works with some of the most deprived children in the country . If you sponsor Don Bosco Care’s food bill you will be able to demonstrate that your company is about much more than generating profit (Gunning, 2007). The BITC Ireland Survey of Consumer Attitudes, 2002 found that 53% of adults would pay more for products and services from companies that are socially and ethically responsible.

What We will do for you
Your companies contribution will be publicly acknowledged throught our website social media pages and newsletter. We will include your company logo on any promational material assciated with the project. A news release will be sent to all relevant local and national print and broadcast media. In return for your contribution Don Bosco Care will oraganise a photocall with local and national press giving further exposeure to your companies contribution to the project.

Future Sustainability of Project
Assuming once-off support from your company. The project will be sustained into the future through the fundraising plans we currently have in place.

Conclusion
Ellen Gunning makes the point that “if goodwill is now measured on a company’s balance sheet, can be long before corperate social responsibility is measured” (Gunning, 2007).