Is there anything else you'd like to add about why you think school feeding is important for people to support?

School feeding creates a new cycle: reducing hunger to improve education and improving access to education to reduce hunger. The school feeding formula is simple: Food attracts children. An education broadens their options to help lift them out of poverty.

It is evident that the provision of fortified biscuits improves students' dietary intake, mitigates short-term hunger and micronutrient deficiencies and as a result improves children's cognition and ability to learn and concentrate.

Provision of a nutritious snack acts as an incentive for enrollment and retention in schools. The biscuits will offset opportunity costs and enable the ultra-poor families to send their children to school.

The School Feeding programme has the strongest effect on education and in addressing social vulnerability. School feeding is cost effective, easy to manage and less of an administrative burden on the teachers, community and the local structures.

School feeding transforms schools into potential centers for addressing a range of children's needs. It has a set of practical complementary activities under 'essential package'. Complementary activities include; systematic de-worming, community mobilisation on health, hygiene, sanitation, nutrition, education, school vegetables gardening and provision of safe drinking water, awareness on HIV/AIDS, disaster risk reduction and cause and effects of climate change. The programme is Government- owned, community led and based on partnerships with UN agencies, and international and national NGOs.

School feeding helps building literate society and spurs economic growth. Educated individuals earn higher wages and earn more when self-employed. Investment in education yields high returns both for the individual and the society. These returns are highest in low-income countries like Bangladesh.

School feeding facilitates addressing gender equality, encouraging parents to send both their daughters and sons to school. The programme supports local farmers. The food is purchased from local, small-scale farmers for use in feeding programme and in support of families and local economies.

In emergency situations school feeding support goes directly to children and ensures that generations do not miss out on an education because of a crisis.
Therefore, a consistent flow of funding is required to continue feeding the poor primary schoolchildren in Bangladesh.