by John Nagiecki, Director of Communications, Planet Aid Three years ago, Planet Aid and its partners started a new project in Mozambique to provide 65,000 children with a daily school lunch. The project, called Food for Knowledge, is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture under the McGovern–Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition...
Sharon Hodgson, Member of UK Parliament – Shadow Minister for Children, Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on School Food – (APPG) My interest in improving the school food on offer in our schools has stemmed from my work as a local Member of Parliament, where I have regularly visited schools in my constituency...
Hello everyone connected with school food and child nutrition I hope everyone is enjoying the 4th International school meals day. I really cannot believe is it really over four years since the day in Denver whilst at the SNA ANC that the concept of reaching out across the globe to celebrate all that is good about...
Dr Allan talks about the importance of school food and food education This Government wants all our children get the best start in life. To help achieve that, we need to do what we can to improve their health and wellbeing – what they eat while at school has a role to play. Almost 8...
Read a selection of previous International School Meals Day blogs from USDA: http://blogs.usda.gov/2014/02/10/usda-invites-schools-to-celebrate-international-school-meals-day-on-march-6/ http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/international-school-meals-day/ And from the World Bank: http://blogs.worldbank.org/health/school-meals-benefit-women-and-girls-around-the-world http://blogs.worldbank.org/health/next-time-it-could-be-you-why-we-should-all-care-about-international-school-meals-day
2015 – Planet Aid Background Many children in rural Mozambique go to school with an empty stomach. Families often do not have enough means to provide their children with a lunch or a coin or two to buy a snack during the day. In fact, many Mozambican families cannot afford to eat more than once a day. Most...
2015 – Partnership for Child Development Creating tasty traditional school meals through Home Grown School Feeding Here are some startling facts for you: 368 million school meals are served up every school day and yet 60 million children go to school hungry every school day. At the same time over 44 million children are classed...
2015 – Carterknowle School and Taylor Shaw The International School Bake Off 2015 Carterknowle School Nutrition Action Group – The ‘Tooty Fruities’ regularly meet up to learn more about food and nutrition and discuss its opinion of school meals provided by Taylor Shaw. They have recently reviewed the new School Food Standards and decided they...
2014 – Watkins Mill High School, United States IBCC ProSTART IN MARYLAND SKYPES WITH STUDENTS IN UNITED KINGDOM Background We have been discussing the school meals program for years at our school. We Skyped with Acklam Grange School in the United Kingdom and discussed the differences in our school lunch program and presented ideas we had to...
2014 – Vishaka B.M.V, Bandarawela, Sri Lanka A BRAND NEW TASTE Background The activity was done with slight differences in two classes. Grade 10 (15 year olds) and grade 6 ( 10 year olds) Grade 10 The activity was done after a vocabulary lesson using food labels, What we did / what we are doing Grade 10...