Ambassador Takata’s Visit to a school in the Mathare Slum in Nairobi
2012/3/28
On the 28th of May in 2012, Ambassador Takata visited a school in the Mathare Slum in Nairobi to attend a food handing-over ceremony. The school receives food assistance from the Japanese Government through WFP Kenya that enables the children to have a hot school meal lunch.
School feeding attracts children to attend school and provides nutrition for the children. It increases their motivation to learn and helps their knowledge be firmly established. It also motivates parents to send their children to school. The Japanese Government contributed $0.25 million to this programme from the supplementary budget in 2011 fiscal year (this budget contributes $6.5 million to WFP Kenya including general food distribution and refugee support).
Many children there have only one meal per day; i.e., this school meal. Ambassador Takata found that many children study hard at school and behave themselves in a very collaborative manner, an effect of school meal assistance.
School feeding attracts children to attend school and provides nutrition for the children. It increases their motivation to learn and helps their knowledge be firmly established. It also motivates parents to send their children to school. The Japanese Government contributed $0.25 million to this programme from the supplementary budget in 2011 fiscal year (this budget contributes $6.5 million to WFP Kenya including general food distribution and refugee support).
Many children there have only one meal per day; i.e., this school meal. Ambassador Takata found that many children study hard at school and behave themselves in a very collaborative manner, an effect of school meal assistance.
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