Every year on March 9, school feeding leaders, government officials, and community members come together to celebrate International School Meals Day. This year, Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF) is celebrating by sharing our top 5 favorite facts about the benefits of school meal programs found around the world. Authored by Tori Spivey from GCNF. 1....
Happy International School Meals Day! By serving nutritious meals in places of education, Mary’s Meals is bringing food, joy and hope to 2,429,182 children living in some of the world’s poorest communities. It’s important that our meals are nutritious, cost effective and simple to prepare. To ensure we can keep our promise to the children...
As they celebrated International School Meals Day, pupils at Kelty Primary School in Scotland were also celebrating the first time that many of them had tried Tacos and Fajitas. It was a fun but messy lunch as pupils tried their first ever roll…there were a few stained shirts and jumpers, but also lots of smiles.
The McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program helps support education, child development and food security in low-income, food-deficit countries around the globe. The program provides for the donation of U.S. agricultural commodities, as well as financial and technical assistance, to support school feeding and maternal and child nutrition projects. The key objective of the...
As the World Food Programme prepares to hand over the delivery of school feeding wholly to the Government, Simona Beltrami takes a closer look at a mini-food system powered by women. Dawn’s yet to break on the rice fields around Bos Thom village, in Cambodia’s northern Siem Reap province. The silence is broken by faint...
Learning while hungry is nearly impossible. In honor of International School Meals Day, the Child Health Task Force has developed an animated video on the benefits of school feeding programs for children. The newest addition to our microlearning toolkit, this video was developed with support from USAID Africa Bureau’s Health and Education offices and hosted...
The mission of the World Food Programme is to ensure that all school aged children have access to school meals and are healthy and ready to learn. Every day, millions of children around the world go to school on an empty stomach—hunger affects their concentration and ability to learn. There are also millions of children—particularly...
The Vegetarian Society explores what improvement may be useful for reviewing vegetarian and vegan school meal provision. Hands up who hasn’t eaten a school lunch? Only those of us who popped home at dinner time, or plumped solidly for the packed lunch box, or perhaps were homeschooled, might say no to this question, which makes...
The World Fair Trade Organisation Europe says a ‘Whole School Food Approach’ is needed. Every year, many European organisations and institutions take the International School Meals Day as an occasion to raise awareness on the importance of providing healthy and sustainably produced meals to children. With the cost of living crisis impacting access and affordability of food,...
Young people’s mental health platform Hidden Strength has tips for making school lunches more exciting! Tired of drab dinners? Switch up your midday meal to enjoy yummier food with a side serving of boosted energy levels, this International School Meals Day! Whether you take a packed lunch, go home, eat out, or eat at school,...