Hungry school children will now receive more than just a sandwich.
FoodBank Cape Town has partnered with the Fresh Produce Exporters Forum (FPEF) and the Peninsula Schools Feeding Association in order to expand the Bread Buddies Schools feeding programme into the Lunch Buddy Program.
"Lunch Buddies" is an initiative, aimed at providing pupils from underprivileged schools with a nutritious lunch.
With generous funding and support from the Clinton Global Initiative for Child Hunger Relief, and the Global Foodbanking Network, FoodBank Cape Town and the FPEF have been able to launch their Fruit in Schools, Lunch Buddies, pilot campaign.
Sandwiches collected through existing donor schools from the Bread Buddies campaign are now brought back to the FoodBank where they are paired with a piece of fruit and then distributed to the beneficiary schools. Fruit is also
distributed into the Peninsula Schools Feeding Association schools as part of a pilot run as well.
Many children have a diet with low nutritional value and some go to school hungry every day, finding it difficult to concentrate on their schoolwork. Adding fruit to the sandwiches, improves the nutritional value of each child's
diet.
