AMMAN —
The
Ministry of Education on Tuesday launched the National Strategy for School
Feeding for the years 2021 through 2025 as a blueprint to improve the health
and nutritional status of schoolchildren while also serving as a lever for
education, health, and food security, according to the Jordan News Agency,
Petra.
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The ministry said
in a statement that the strategy, developed in collaboration with the
UN World Food Program (WFP), lays out a plan for all-encompassing action to improve the
school feeding system and promote a healthy food culture.
The blueprint
strives to raise a generation capable of making healthy and sensible food
choices, thereby improving the social and economic well-being of the society at
large.
During a ceremony
to unveil the strategy,
Minister of Education Wajih Al-Owais said the school
feeding plan is the fruit of ongoing collaboration between the ministry and the
WFP to support the students’ healthy physical, mental, psychological, and
social development.
Alberto Correa
Mendes, WFP resident representative and country director in Jordan, said: “Our
strategic relationship with the Ministry of Education in the National School
Feeding Program is an important component of our commitment to the Jordanian
government.”
He cited a recent
project to supply schools with nutritious meals that are prepared by local
women in the locations where the project is being implemented.
Since 2013, the
National School Feeding Program has provided nutritious snacks to over 430,000
public school students aged six to 12 in impoverished regions across the
Kingdom.
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