About the Cause
Poor health and nutrition negatively affect children’s school attendance and ability to learn. We implement school feeding programs that look for alternative ways to ensure sustainable supply of nutritious foods to school children and young people in urban and marginalized areas.
In addition, contaminated water and poor sanitation are big factors that result in the death of children worldwide. In our programs, we always include what is called WASH which means Water, Sanitation & Hygiene. This is done through the design and construction of child-friendly and gender sensitive facilities for sanitation, such as latrines and hand-washing stations. We also provide clean water supply by building water wells and raise awareness about the importance of sanitation and hygiene.
My Story
Manual on School Nutrition Programme 01 The main responsibilities of the Ministry of Education include; Enrollment of all school going age children to formal education at schools ensuring "Education for All" , Provision of quality Education and Create future generation with improved physical and psychological skills. Many surveys reveal that the physical, physiological and nurtritional status of school going children make a direct or indirect impact on the students' attendance, participation in learning and performances. Therefore, it is essential to improve the nutritional level of the children of school going age. Even-though it's expected to build school going children as a group with proper nutritional status, studies have revealed that children suffer from wasting, stunting, anemia and that adversely affects their health status and educational performances. Thus the main objectives of the School Nutrition Programme are; Provide healthy and active children to the Nation minimizing nutritional problems, Inculcate good dietary habits and Promote healthy habits and to improve school attendance. 02 Manual on School Nutrition Programme Introduction It is important to build a healthy society to win the future world and to face all the challenges of it successfully. Education and Health are closely interconnected. Proper health is important to receive a better education. The basic platform of healthy life is nutrition. Proper nutrition is indeed essential for better health