Thanksgiving Thursday: Week 2 Updates

 It’s time for Thanksgiving Thursday where we pause a moment to recognize our progress and celebrate our successes and our supporters. We officially started Project FED 16 days ago, and while our website is still a work in progress we have a lot of reasons to celebrate.

Celebrating A Sustained Success

Despite it being two weeks since we last posted a video on YouTube, something I definitely need to correct, I am proud that we have maintained page 1 ranking for Google using the keywords Project Fed Nigeria.

I believe this is due to the name of our YouTube Channel being Project FED Nigeria. I am going to test a few things out to see whether I am right about that, but if that is the case it is extremely helpful information to know as it will help us moving forward.

Celebrating Support

Last week, I honored our Chief Financial Officer, Rita Larrivee. While we don’t yet have any finances to manage, just knowing that she is ready to step up and handle the task when the time comes frees me to focus on the marketing side of things.


This week, I want to honor our Chief Operations Officer and the man who inspired Project FED’s existence: Father Lucas Ogbonn. This is a dangerous time to be a Catholic priest in Nigeria. Every day they are kidnapped, beaten, and killed while working to serve their parishioners and the people in the villages around them by members of Boko Haram.

He is willing to brave the dangers and go out to deliver the supplies and materials the nuns need in order to provide food and education for the children. He helps them raise the funds they need to keep providing secure dwellings for the children. Without his tireless dedication, Project FED would not be possible. If you’re reading this blog, please pray for him and for all those serving on the front lines a people who are facing great danger for thesake of Christ.

Celebrating Progress

This week, our email list doubled in size. Yes, that technically means there are only two people on it, not including me, but it is still progress and we honor that. Our goal is to double that progress by next week.

Views of our blog have gone from 0 readers when we started to over 133. Also, our posts have gone from single-digit views during our first week to consistent double-digit views this past week. Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to read our posts. It means a great deal to us.

Looking Forward

We are continuing to learn better ways to market and promote our products and our blog, and we’re going to be sharing those with you in the week to come. While we are still a long way from our target goal of $333 a day, we are making progress and we are so grateful for the progress we’ve made.

Keep the Celebration Going

Join Project FED and help us continue the celebration. 

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