Free School Meals Program
Students lining up for lunch
Theory of Change
Increase school enrollment and student health by providing breakfast and lunch to students whose families could not otherwise feed them during the school day. Our government primary school partners, Mlima Shabaha and Tindegani, reside in communities with high levels of extreme poverty ($3/day).
Breakfast and lunch are prepared daily onsite by an mpishi (cook) with the menu consisting of ugali (cornmeal) and maharague (beans), makonde (a bean stew) and mchicha (spinach), and/or rice pilau. Fresh vegetables are served 2-3 times per week. In 2016, the program was expanded to provide breakfast uji (a traditional porridge).
Goals
Provide breakfast and lunch daily to ~1,600 students at two schools in the Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region.
Decrease rates of malnutrition in primary students.
Promote access to education, increase school attendance & improve exam scores.
Impact
Student enrollment, attendance and exam scores have steadily improved since the beginning of the program start in 2015.
We are grateful to the school and community leadership in our two partner communities for their continued support.
Students eating lunch outside
Funding
The Free School Meals Program is currently funded by the Lalafofofo General Fund. In the past we have had sister schools based in the U.S. partner with one or all of our Tanzanian schools.
If you’re school or educational organization is interested in partnering with one of our schools, please reach out to us at info@lalafofofo.org.
If you would like to make an individual donation to the General Fund please click on the button below.
Click on the images below to learn more about each of our partner schools.
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