The months that need rations
Food insecurity is rarely constant. It arrives with a lost job, a medical bill, or a month when prices moved faster than wages.
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Very few of the households we support are short of food every month of the year. Most manage, tightly, until something interrupts the balance — an illness, a job that ends, a family obligation that cannot be declined, or a season when prices rise faster than daily wages do.
That pattern shapes how ration support works. A package is built around what a household actually cooks, in quantities that cover a month rather than a meal: flour, rice, pulses, cooking oil, tea, sugar.
Demand is not evenly spread across the year. It rises through Ramadan and again before Eid, when families are expected to provide more at precisely the point their budgets are least able to. Planning for that surge in advance is the difference between arriving on time and arriving late.
How support is delivered matters as much as what it contains. Distribution happens close to home, without ceremony and without an audience. A family should not have to be publicly identified as needing help in order to receive it.