A dish and spoon are not usually the first things that come to mind when thinking about the contents of a typical schoolbag. But for the children of Som Rong primary school in Siem Reap, Cambodia, a dish and spoon take pride of place every day beside their books and stationary. Each morning they line...
Sohaimen is a 13 year-old boy from the Philippines. He says his picture shows that nutritious food should be on every family’s table, so that children could achieve their career dreams.
The Farakunku Foundation helps children in some of the poorest parts of the Gambia to get an education and stay healthy and well. The Foundation has lunch clubs in place at two Gambian nursery schools, ensuring every pupil gets a nutritious lunch during the school day.
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...
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 Alistair McIntyre, Head of Catering Services at Scottish Borders Council. When I was a young (and not so young) boy I loved school dinners…but I can understand why some of my friends didn’t! The mashed potatoes were texturally challenging and often greyer than a rainy Aberdeen afternoon! The beef required some amount of chewing to get it...
As part of its multi-intervention approach to sustainable school meals programming, the United States Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service (USDA/FAS) through its flagship McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition (McGovern-Dole) program provides support for the establishment of school gardens. These McGovern-Dole supported school gardens address a variety of needs. The gardens serve...