Establishing School Feeding Programmes.
Providing basic meals daily to all students (boys and girls) at the schools that we support, creates greater impact as it reduces hunger, malnutrition and it improves productivity in the classroom.
Due to the poverty experienced within rural families across Africa, hunger continues to be a major problem for many, as they are unable to eat balanced diets on a daily basis. Some of our beneficiaries, before joining the S.H.E Programme, sometimes would go two to three days without food, which became a barrier to their education.
Through our holistic support, we remove this barrier by providing food supplies to all of our beneficiaries and their families.
Due to the poverty experienced within rural families across Africa, hunger continues to be a major problem for many, as they are unable to eat balanced diets on a daily basis. Some of our beneficiaries, before joining the S.H.E Programme, sometimes would go two to three days without food, which became a barrier to their education.
Through our holistic support, we remove this barrier by providing food supplies to all of our beneficiaries and their families.
However, it was noticed that at all the schools that we work with, a large number of the students who were not part of the S.H.E Programme, were suffering greatly from hunger, and this resulted in there being the high statistics of school drop outs and students not arriving to school, as they were unable to physically walk the long distances to school every day, due to their lack of access to adequate nutritional food supplies.
For those students who were able to trek the long distance to their respective schools, when they were in class, they were unable to concentrate and absorb everything that they had learnt. The same applied after their journey back home, as they were unable to complete their homework or study, due to not having enough food within their bodies to sustain them.
In response to all of these issues identified, we decided to implement daily ‘School Feeding Programmes’ in all schools, as part of our additional support that we offer to them.
Once this initiative was established, the impact created was absolutely amazing. All students (boys and girls) are now able to receive a healthy meal every day at school and as a result of this, it has reduced the school dropout rates by nearly 75%, with student attendances greatly improving. The vast majority of students who suffered from malnutrition soon transformed into healthy individuals, and as a result of this support – academic progress from all students improved significantly as well.
The impact created across all schools where our ‘School Feeding Programmes’ have been set up has been very rewarding, and we look forward to seeing this impact grow, where hopefully in the near future, school attendances will be back at full capacity, where no students are hungry and suffering from malnutrition.
