As It Is: School Lunch Important for Health and Education
06/08/2013
The World Food Program hopes to reduce hunger among schoolchildren.
Welcome to As It Is, your daily magazine show from VOA Learning English.
I’m June Simms.
Today we hear about two studies on childhood hunger and its effects on educational development and the world economy.
We begin with a story out of Dakar, Senegal.
School Lunch Important for Health and Education
Educators in low-income areas everywhere struggle with one of the most basic barriers to teaching children -- hungry students. The United Nations World Food Program says in its 2013 State of School Feeding Worldwide report that supplying meals and snacks to students has proven valuable. Researchers in Dakar, Senegal agree. They found that supplying free lunches to students in rural primary schools not only made them healthier, it raised their test scores. Avi Arditti has more.
During the 2009-2010 academic year, researchers in Senegal did an experiment. They selected 120 rural primary schools in four of the poorest areas of the country. Students at half the schools received free, daily lunches -- a local dish of rice with vegetables and either fish or meat, cooked in oil. Students at the other 60 schools did not receive meals.
Abdoulaye Diagne is the director of the Consortium for Social Economic Research in Dakar. He led the study.
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