Jordan is expanding a school meals programme that improves children’s nutrition and attendance while creating employment opportunities for women through local food production and community kitchens.
A record private-sector commitment will help provide nutritious school meals to 366,000 children while supporting sustainable farming and stronger local food systems across Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
University students across France can now access €1 meals regardless of income, helping ease financial pressure and improve access to food.
The United Kingdom is overhauling school meals by removing high-sugar and deep-fried foods, improving children’s nutrition and helping tackle rising obesity and health risks.
Across Africa, school feeding programmes now provide nutritious meals to over 86 million children, strengthening education, health and local economies.
A programme providing free lunches to every state primary school pupil in the UK capital has now served 100 million meals, easing costs for hundreds of thousands of families.
A recent report reveals that nearly 80 million more children are now eating at school thanks to government-led meal programs, a strong step toward more stable nutrition and education for young learners worldwide.
Indonesia is deploying its ambitious program providing free meals to schoolchildren and pregnant women, a plan which will feed a quarter of the population once in full swing in 2029.
A school-feeding program has been successfully implemented in seven districts in Rwanda, providing nutritious meals to children while promoting their education, health, and sanitation.
Kenya has launched a program that is expected to ensure every school-going child has a meal by 2030.
