Provide School Meals to 2000 Students in Tanzania

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Summary

The Mbola Cluster school meals program in Tanzania will be implemented in 17 primary schools. Global Giving support will help to serve school meals to 2000 children in 5 junior primary schools. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

School meals play a critical role in increasing children’s ability to learn. Often, children living in hunger hot spots have severe nutritional deficiencies as a result of chronic hunger. Additionally, many children in hunger hot spots have only one meal a day, and during the hunger months, many children go without meals. School meals can have a positive effect on both children's health and their educational performance.

Activities

By adding one nutritionally balanced meal to the school day, children’s attention and energy improve. Additionally, school meals help to ensure that parents send both their girls and boys to school, thereby increasing girls role in the community.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $695
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $83,305
Total Funding Goal: $84,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will provide nutritionaly balanced meals to 2,000 children to increase educational achievement and support healthy development.

Project Message

Now the children have energy to pay attention at school and even to play during recess
- Patrick Mutuo, Coordinator from site with a school lunch program

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Amy Holland,
Development Associate
432 Park Avenue South
13th Floor
New York, NY 10016
United States
2125845710
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Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Millennium Promise
432 Park Avenue South
432 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016
United States
212.584.5710
http://www.millenniumpromise.org

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Tanzania and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Tanzania, read the Human Development Report on Tanzania or the Wikipedia entry for Tanzania.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 11, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 14, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Updates on the school meal program

By MonikaGolebiewski - Intern, July 11, 2008 06:22 PM

Since the launch of the school meals program in 17 primary schools in Mbola, Tanzania in January 2008, school enrollment increased by 10.73% for boys and 5.22% for girls respectively, since the project was implemented in December 2007. The attendance rate, defined as the percentage of the enrolled pupils in primary schools, has increased to 100% in the first quarter of the year 2008 from 94% in December 2007. Finally, the number of students fed at school by the school meals program has increased from 7.44% in December 2007 to 94.8% in March 2008. By providing nutritious meals to almost every student enrolled, the foundation is set for the ability to learn, play and enjoy the preferences of a regular school education.

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