Posted By Sarah Assefa on AgriProFocus 14 February 2019
Makdala School, situated in the Biserate Gebriel neighborhood of Old Airport, Addis Ababa, has 1300 students, 310 of whom are in the school feeding programme. The school feeding programme was adopted to increase the attendance, performance and retention of low income students. At Makdala school, this programme involves breakfast and lunch each day of the week. Bread and tea are for breakfast. Lunch features rice twice a week, and other days shiro and miser with injera. Makdala is one of many public schools in Ethiopia with a school feeding programme. According to the Ethiopia Education Bureau, 120 000 students in Addis Ababa are registered for the school feeding programs. Because of funding limitations, the food in the school feeding program provides critical calories, however tends to be fairly low in micro-nutrients from vegetables.
Mr. Eskinder, founder of Food Secure Schools has been working to promote gardening with Makdala School and other schools in
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Posted By Sarah Assefa on AgriProFocus 4 January 2019
Don Bosco School (Jemo 1, Addis Ababa) is a very special school dedicated to homeless boys living on the streets of Addis Ababa. "Loving kindness in education" is the institutional motto. The school has room to board 200 boys, and daily, a bus goes to the city center to pick up additional kids who live on the street so that they can take part in daytime activities. At the school, children are fed and cared for, provided basic education and the chance to develop vocational skills, such as mechanic skills, sewing, cooking and now gardening.
Mr. Eskinder Mulugeta has a beautiful vision of a food secure Ethiopia, achieved through food secure schools. Travelling to Uganda for work, he noticed that it was very normal for schools in Uganda to have horticulture and poultry and dairy to supplement the education and diet of the school community, as well as to help manage the school running costs. He notices that these
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