Lunch 4 Learning: Helping East African schools to help themselves
a small, and relatively new Oxfordshire-based charity, we believe we
are making a real difference in the lives of Ugandan children and
school communities in the Jinja District on the shores of Lake
Victoria. We aim to help young children to improve their school
attendance and to learn more effectively through working with schools
to provide a midday meal produced sustainably.
schools to establish ‘school gardens’ on which they can grow food crops
(mainly maize) or rear animals. The children learn important
agricultural skills for survival as well as growing food to eat. From
our early pilots schools we know that they are able to be
self-sustaining after about three years – and for a total outlay of
less than £1 per pupil
The Jinja district has around 100
primary schools, most of which are in very poor rural areas. In March
2009, Lunch4Learning started working with 54 of these schools which
have been recruited into the programme across 4 phases. With 45,500
children already benefitting from our input, KOA’s support would enable
us to extend the opportunity to a further 32 schools with 21,000
The full proposals can be downloaded by clicking on the project title.
Clicking on the charity's name will take you to the charity's own web sites.
like a printed copy of the full proposals, please phone or email Sylvia Vetta (739071) or Clive Rodgers