How can someone help the school feeding program?
Everyone should acknowledge the opportunities and development passage from generation to generation. The illiteracy rate of poor children is most critical in conflict affected and food insecure zones. Anyone who donates US 50 cents per day, specifically for school feeding, is contributing to the bright future of poor children. Please, visit WFP's website to make a donation.
School feeding takes an integrated approach that is supported by the technical expertise and materials of several partners. This approach helps the program focus on hygiene, sanitation, and agricultural activities such as school gardens.
Is there anything else you'd like to add about why you think school feeding is important for people to support?
School feeding plays a critical role not only by contributing to education of school children but also helps to mitigate the situation of food insecure families at rural areas. WFP was targeting school feeding activities in most conflict affected zones with high concentration of resettled returnees recovering from the war, a group of extremely food-insecure people who consume less than 1,400 calories a day. Most of the families targeted spend around 60% of their income on food. In general, they consume a maximum of one meal per day.
Now, the Government of Angola will be feeding these children. The government has launched a three years pilot school feeding program in those provinces previously assisted by WFP. The pilot school feeding will serve as baseline for the National school Feeding program to help school children countrywide.
School feeding is also powerful tool for communicating important messages to children and parents. For example, WFP, together with partner agencies, supports HIV/AIDS clubs where school children learn about HIV/AIDS, hygiene, and sanitation. WFP encourages the participation of surrounding communities by involving parents in the preparation, cooking, and distribution of meals to children.
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