BND provides school meals to Choix through a large-scale grant from the World Bank. BND receives approval for these grants on a year-to-year basis and prior year’s approval does not guarantee the inclusion of Choix in the following year’s grant.

BND was established in 1986 at the behest of Caritas Nederland and COHAN (Comité de Coopération Haitiano-Néerlandaise). BND is a Haitian, non-profit, apolitical, non-confessional, non-governmental organization and operates under the laws of the Republic of Haïti.

BND focuses its activities in rural rather than urban areas and partners with the Haitian government, other NGO’s, partner organizations, and its beneficiaries. Since the early 1970’s, the schools in the various programs served receive a hot lunch and approximately 26,000 children, in the most impoverished sections of Port-au-Prince, receive a morning snack.