School Feeding to increase enrollment and retention of refugee children in school in Uganda.
Malnutrition is real in our community, yet a hungry child cannot concentrate in class. Our idea is to increase enrollment and retention of refugee children in schools in Kyangwali refugee settlement by engaging children, teachers and parents. The project benefits both refugee and host community children who have struggled in class because of lack of midday school meals both in ECD/Nursery, Primary school children and Secondary School. Early malnutrition can adversely affect physical, mental, and social aspects of child health, which in turn leads to underweight, stunted growth, lowered immunity, and mortality.
P4T provides 2 hot meals every day to the children to make sure they stay in school
P4T support school to provide hot meals to the children during break and lunch times. The purpose of this program is to fight hunger in school to reduce absenteeism, and school dropouts, ulcers, and malnutrition, while improving enrollment and concentration in class as well as excellence in academic performance. P4T has provided hot meals for the last 6 years; 320,000+ meal days to over 1,200 children and 110 school staff.
