School Feeding
In Tanzania it is the responsibility of the parents or guardians to physically provide the food for their children’s lunch. But through poor management and a system of inequality the programmes failed. The impact was that the students had to go home for lunch, those who live along way from school may return late and be punished or not come back at all. Their parents had to leave their work to go home and feed them. Not all families grew enough food for lunch and the children might have one meal a day in the evening and so would spend the day hungry
The lack of or infrequent food can have a negative impact on a child’s health (in terms of their ability to fight diseases and build up immunity), their attentiveness (lack of energy), their ability to learn (cognitive performance and brain development) and their attendance levels and exam results suffer as a consequence.
To tackle this the Livingstone Tanzania Trust have established a 5 tier holistic 3 year feeding programme.
- Run a series of nutrition seminars in the community explaining the link between diet and heath
- Establish a food matching programme whereby only those who contribute are fed
- Establish a Hardship Fund and management committee to feed the poorest 7.5 % of the community
- Establish a small farming programme for those benefiting from the Hardship Fund.
- Establish a small farming programme growing fruit and vegetables than can be used to enhance the quality of the lunch.
This scheme is budgeted to cost £13,300 and cover 110 children.
At the moment we have £8,000 and we need the remaining to complete the project
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So far we are feeding 821 students (75%) of the school population. Some kids live close to the school and can pop home and get lunch, some parents are not interested in this programme and some are too poor to join in despite us helping the 7.5% poorest. For £15 a month we can get another 10 kids in the hardship fund.
