Education - School Nutrition

In Tanzania, where rural children may receive only one meal a day, children often go to school hungry. Children who are hungry have difficulty learning and are more susceptible to disease. When children are hungry, school attendance falls and dropout rates increase. Improving nutrition and health by providing food during school hours helps alleviate these problems; school performance improves, fewer children have to repeat grades, attendance rates increase (particularly for girls), and drop-out rates decline.

To address these issues, we strive to strengthen community's ability to provide nutritious food and help alleviate hunger among school children and to increase student, teacher, parent and community commitment to and understanding of the relationship of between good nutrition, good health, and education.

TPP is working with schools, parents, and local government leaders in Naitolia and Milola to develop a plan for sustainable school feeding programs. In Milola, parents have committed to cultivating six acres of land.