On January 31 the African Union adopted homegrown school feeding programs as a continental strategy to enhance attendance and performance of students in school and as a way to boost income generation for local smallholder farmers and entrepreneurs who work in the school meals supply chain. The strategy encourages Member States that have school feeding...
School feeding programmes provide a social safety net for millions of children every year. But more than that, they are also helping to strengthen the food value chain in developing countries, creating demand for locally produced food and stimulating economic development. Tetra Pak, which is part of the Tetra Laval Group, has supported school feeding...
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...
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...
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...
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 – Swarnapali Balika National School, Sri Lanka Healthy eating: Too often these days people eat a diet high in fast foods which contain unnatural additives and do not have good nutritious values. I suggested we make our own home garden in the school to cultivate fresh vegetable and fruits. What we did / what we are...
2014 – Ryan International School, India – Day 5 INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL MEALS DAY DAY 5 CELEBRATIONS Today the students of Class I made beautiful collages depicting healthy food and its importance for the body. They came up with the different ideas and also gave small speeches about the work done by them in class. Class II prepared...