Children and young people at a school in Japan help to make and then serve the school lunch themselves.
Category: international
2019 – pretty Anime-inspired snack from Japan
Children in a Japanese education centre enjoyed making and eating pretty and fun anime-inspired snacks for lunch.
2019 – A new programme to improve children’s nutrition and school attendance in Burundi – Tetra Pak
Milk is new on the school menu in Burundi as a part of a growing school food programme. Tetra Pak is supporting our customer, the newly founded local company Modern Dairy Burundi, to help boost the nutrition of 20,000 children and contribute to a positive spiral of health, development and school attendance. The challenge According...
2019 Blog – If you still think school meals are just about the food, then you haven’t been paying attention. Professor Donald A.P. Bundy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Since the last International School Meals Day there has been a sea-change in the way that the world thinks about school feeding. In 2018, the third edition of Disease Control Priorities (www.DCP-3.org), led by the World Bank with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, provided new insights into the return on investing in...
2019 – Celebrating ISMD In Mozambique
The theme for ISMD 2019 is “Who makes my meal?” The aim is to encourage young people to learn more about where their food comes from. In Mozambique, primary school children in select schools in the Maputo Province understand that their lunch comes from farmers in the United States. The daily fortified, protein-rich corn-soy porridge they...
2019 – a fresh, tasty school lunch from Japan
An Elementary School in Japan had a lunch of bread with apricot jam, milk, vegetable soup, salad and macaroni and cheese gratin. The food was handmade from scratch – and the food on the yellow tray is a lactose allergy version.
2019 – pupils make lunch at a school in South Africa
The Grade 6 Highbury boys celebrated International School Meals day at Ethembeni School in Inchanga, KZN, South Africa by cooking some exciting things.
2019 Blog – School meals? Where in the world? – Arlene Mitchell, Executive Director, Global Child Nutrition Foundation
The occasion of International School Meals Day leads to thoughts about who eats school meals, what they eat, and where they are. As one of the lucky people who have had a chance to study and visit school meal programs all over the world, I can’t help but think of examples I’ve seen over the...
2019 – a rice bear from Japan
Children at an education centre in Japan enjoyed eating tasty bears made from rice as a party for one of their friends who was leaving.
2019 Blog – from Scotland’s Deputy First Minister
As thousands of children and young people prepare to enjoy school meals across the country, it’s worth taking a moment to think about who has made the meal in front of them, what they like about it and where it has come from. International School Meals Day 2019 is a welcome opportunity to reflect, share...