Hands at Work in Africa plans to build a school in the Congo and provide the students with one nutritious meal per day so they can keep attending class.

CMYKhub founder Clive Denholm pledged $20,000 to the project – and also called on other printers to back the project and raise it with their clients.

"A whole lot of kids are going to be fed and not die," he told ProPrint.

"The interesting thing about the printing community is that this is a seed we're planting together and virtually every business in Australia has contact with a printer at least once per year. This could be huge and we might play a decent part in helping."

George Snyman from Hands at Work said that while poverty rates in general were improving, the standard of living of the "bottom billion" was actually declining.

He said children from these "very dysfunctional" communities were so focused on finding their next meal that they weren't able to attend school.

Snyman told ProPrint that the support CMYKhub has provided could be measured "in hundreds of children's lives".

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