Free lunch for grade schools?
February 17, 2010 Write a Comment Food, Pilipinas, Promote
All elementary schools within Negros Oriental were allocated with budget from, how I understood it, provincial government officials that will give free lunches to graders for 90 school days. Wow! I’ve been a public school student until secondary school and all I could remember getting was free bulgur that is a not fully-polished cheap grain. Boiled in water and matched with powdered choco to add flavor. And that was in the 90s.
This free lunch is everything from mongo, dried fish, noodles, canned goods with the good old NFA rice. I’m not complaining if that’s everything they could provide! At least it’s FREE and feeds thousands. Something to look forward to for kids in the middle of the day. Parents of these graders does the cooking in shifts.
My mother, who’s a school principal, said that attendance increased, if not perfected, when the free lunch initiative started. Due to the limited options she said that her school barters food, like canned goods, for crops locally grown to add to the menu.
Talks of implementing this throughout the country is on the move. Meaning a national budget will be drafted and finalized. Another possible source of corruption but if it entails stuffing empty stomach for at least once a day for my fellow Filipinos then I’m still not complaining!
Note: Actual photos are taken from Calicanan Elementary School in Pamplona, Negros Oriental.
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