By Mwesigye Enock | Volunteer
Children leave home for school as early as seven in the morning and get back home at six in the evening which means that they spend their whole day at school. According to the Ugandan education act 2008, the state calls upon guardians of children to take the responsibility of making sure that their children have meals at school, data shows that 34% of the primary children and 45% of the secondary students are the only ones who get meals at school.
In the project of “Education For All in Uganda” we make sure that when children go to school they also have meals in the time that they are in the school environment and this has helped to improve the school performance of the children and students.
Nicholas is in primary five at Living Hope Primary School and he says that “it is good for us to get meals at school because when we get meals at school we are able to get the energy of going to attend classes and also keep ourselves healthy when we are at school.”
Food has been an essential component in the education of the children as the provision of meals to the school going children is very important in their academic journey in that the meals will help to improve the concentration of students in class, reduce absenteeism, increase class involvement, reduce on the cases of children reaching school late and reduce the school dropout rate. The studies have it that school going children who have meals at school happen to get a better performance in school.
Your contribution towards the children of Another Hope Children Ministries has been used to make sure that children not only go to school but also have meals when they are at school which in return has greatly improved their development in the aspects of wellbeing and better academic performance.
We wouldn’t have done this without your effort and the help that you have provided to make sure that the children are eligible to meals when they are at school.
May God Bless You,
With love from Another Hope Children Ministries.
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