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...
Food professional Tony Mulgrew: Being part of ISMD is to help emphasise the importance of school meals on an international stage with the importance of how children can benefit from having school meal. It gives schools the chance to show case the work they are doing in education of the quality of using fresh local...
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...
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 – 14 October Secondary School for girls Yemeni traditional dishes Background The students wanted to participate in International School Meals Day as part of the ISA project they did about school meals. What we did / what we are doing The students prepared famous traditional dishes. Then they had a food exhibition at school and invited...
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...
2014 – The High Range School, India Children learn about healthy food and nutritional diet Background Healthy food gives a healthy mind. The first graders at The High Range School learnt about food and food items which provides us with energy. On a continuous basis, the students are updated about healthy eating behaviors. We designed an activity at...