Expanding opportunities for the world's children to receive adequate nutrition for learning and achieving their potential.
The four-year Angola school feeding project is made possible by the Foreign Agricultural Service’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education (FFE) and Child Nutrition Program, which helps promote education, child development and food security for some of the world’s poorest children. Among the criteria necessary to receive a FFE grant, a country must have: a lower or lower-middle per capita income; a population with more than a 20 percent prevalence of undernourishment; and adult literacy rates below 75 percent.
GCNF, acting as the subrecipient to Joint Aid Management (JAM), a faith-based humanitarian organization headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, will help implement a four-year school feeding program in the Benguela Province of Angola. Reducing short-term hunger, increasing nutrition and health knowledge through the nutritional education of children and community members, and strengthening capacity building within the Angolan government are all program objectives. JAM is currently feeding 200,000 children in Benguela.
GCNF will work closely with the Angolan Ministry of Education at the macro policy level to formulate policies and craft a framework and roll-out plan to implement a national school feeding program. By securing government commitment and funding at the national level, program sustainability is encouraged. Additionally, GCNF will work with JAM and Humana People to People (ADPP) to conduct school feeding seminars, train Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) representatives and help with PTA formation. Seminar topics will include: school warehouse preparation and management; school feeding management; evaluation and monitoring; nutrition education; and the PTA as a community-based organization and its role in school feeding advocacy.
Angola has an estimated population of 17 million people and is located in sub-Saharan Africa. Portuguese is the offical language and Roman Catholic is the dominant religion at 68%. The average life expectancy is 42 years and Angola ranks number 143 (out of 182 countries) on the United Nations’ Human Development Index. Compulsory education is eight years and the average literacy rate is 67%. Crude oil, refined petroleum products, gas, diamonds and coffee are its main exports.
This project is made possible by the Foreign Agricultural Service’s McGovern-Dole International Food for Education (FFE) and Child Nutrition Program, which helps promote education, child development and food security for some of the world’s poorest children. Among the criteria necessary to receive a FFE grant, a country must have a lower or lower-middle per capita income, a population with more than a 20 percent prevalence of undernourishment, and adult literacy rates below 75 percent.
