Our mission is to improve child nutrition and education outcomes in rural Mozambique. We address the immediate needs of child hunger and poor school performance by providing school lunch programs in rural schools. This increases children's nutritional intake and empower them to learn on a full stomach. We also address the longer-term root causes of child malnutrition by working with the local communities to stimulate agricultural development and reduce poverty. The school lunch program partners with local farmer associations, facilitating access to training and improved inputs, and then provides a stable anchor buyer through the school lunch program's procurement. In doing so, our go... read more Our mission is to improve child nutrition and education outcomes in rural Mozambique. We address the immediate needs of child hunger and poor school performance by providing school lunch programs in rural schools. This increases children's nutritional intake and empower them to learn on a full stomach. We also address the longer-term root causes of child malnutrition by working with the local communities to stimulate agricultural development and reduce poverty. The school lunch program partners with local farmer associations, facilitating access to training and improved inputs, and then provides a stable anchor buyer through the school lunch program's procurement. In doing so, our goal is to improved child nutrition and community food security for a more prosperous future.
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By Cara Myers | Director of Development and Innovation
Greetings from Mozambique! This year got off to a challenging start, as the rainy season brought on severe flooding in mid-January in Mozambique, especially concentrated in Gaza Province where MSLI... Read the full report ›By Cara Myers | Director of Development and Innovation
This year, severe flooding during the month of January in Gaza Province, Mozambique (right where the Mozambique School Lunch Initiative works) created major challenges for the start of the school... Read the full report ›By Cara Myers | Director of Development and Innovation
Starting last fall, the Mozambique School Lunch Initiative is lending a hand in a new initiative to support secondary school students -- partnering with the Hokwe boarding house in Chokwe District. In... Read the full report ›
