The pupils at St. Anthony’s celebrated International School Meals Day with an international menu, created by the Health Heroes in the school. What would your dream healthy eating menu look like?
St. Mary’s Prep in England is very lucky to offer a wide range of healthy food to its pupils (and staff!). Their International School Meals Day menu included shepherds pie using organic lamb and apple and blackcurrant crumble!
Scotland has been a beacon of inspiration across the world for its work in encouraging our children and young people to make better food and drink choices. As we celebrate International School Meals Day 2018, I am delighted to see so many contributions from Scotland to this year’s international cookbook competition. I am proud that...
As part of International School Meals Day 2018 we were delighted to launch the My Food cookbook featuring twenty recipes from around the world, submitted by children and young people as part of the #ISMD2018 cookbook competition! #MyFood We hope children, young people, schools and families enjoy reading, sharing and making the recipes. Download the cookbook
By Rebecca Steelman, Communications & Development Coordinator, GCNF Around the world, there is an unprecedented understanding and adoption of school meal programs as an economic investment strategy for country governments. Home-grown school feeding programs not only serve social protection and development goals by feeding hungry children and fostering education, they also contribute intergenerational benefits to...
Mozambican primary school children in the Maputo Province have been enjoying a daily, fortified, protein-rich school lunch for several years thanks to Planet Aid and ADPP Mozambique’s Food for Knowledge Project (FFK) funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program. This regular supply of nutritious food offered through the project is a...
By Klaus Plenge, Key Account Director, Tetra Pak Peru. Known as ‘Qali Warma’, the school feeding programme in Peru delivers milk and other nutritious products to millions of children aged three to five across eight regions in Peru, including coastal areas, mountainous regions and the capital city, Lima, home to more than 30% of the...
Food, glorious food: Better eating can create better learning says Lorna Aitken, sharing some thoughts from Scotland on how and why good food is important as we head towards the fifth International School Meals Day. Lorna Aitken is the Food and Health Development Officer at Education Scotland Click here to read the article (reproduced with kind permission from Children...
By Janey Thornton, PhD, GCNF Board Member – written on behalf of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) Over the last ten years, school meal programme advocates have increasingly raised the awareness of the importance and value of school meal programmes across the world. Advocates have come from accepting the fact that girls probably won’t...
By John Swinney, Deputy First Minister Education is the defining mission of this Government. We want to ensure every child – no matter where they are from or how well off their family is – has the same opportunities and an equal chance to succeed and we are taking forward a range of actions to...