On this day we want to highlight the Bishoftu school feeding program,
The Bishoftu school feeding program is one of the Elnet Foundation projects under the “Bishoftu Integrated Children and Women Empowerment Project (BICWEP)’’, a five-year project, with a 75 million budget, and it was launched on January 12, 2022, and it is implemented by our trusted partner Gudina Tumsa Foundation (GTF). The school feeding program is a component that serves breakfast and lunch for 200 primary school students; a component that has already been started as the school year began.
Archived results of the school feeding,
Beginning from the start of the school year in 2021 the project has been providing two meals a day for more 435 students. This activity continued successfully throughout the reporting quarter. In addition, to support the school feeding program and provide educational opportunities, the project started vegetable gardening (tomatoes, potatoes, and carrots) on a small plot of land provided by the beneficiary school. To find out the change that the school feeding program is bringing on the health status of the students, anthropometric measurement was taken at the end of the school year. This data indicates that there is a significant improvement in the status of the children included in the feeding program.
