Feed The School Program

Food security for better education.

Feed The School is a program that runs in poor African regions linking the schools with farmers for sustainable win-win relationship. The main goals of FTS are to relieve schools from grain price volatility, creating sustainable economic growth in the community with long term savings and revenue, and also improving food security and nutrition for students.

Inspired by a program implemented in Brazil, Feed The School was a instant success, being aknowledged by ONU.

Benefits of the program includes:

  • Minimal Storage Losses
  • Better control of food stock
  • Fair prices for food
  • Community based solution
  • Opportunity for school to upgrade
  • Food quality and nutrition ensured
  • Better profitability for farmers
  • Food Security
  • Improvement of money circulation in the locality
  • Relationships improvements
  • Additional revenue to the school
  • Sustainable solution for a major issue

FTS Program is a solution for all kinds of schools, day or boarding, of all sizes, and can be implemented for maize/beans or any other grain storage. Because of how great it has worked, it has become not just a solution for hungry problems, but, since the kids will attend more int the schools and their parents are encouraged to send their children to school because of the meals, FTS turned, also, in a educational tool in Africa.

Read the news report made by ONU about the Program and its results here (in portuguese).

 
 

Inspired by a program implemented in Brazil, Feed The School was a instant success, being aknowledged by ONU.

Benefits of the program includes:

  • Minimal Storage Losses
  • Better control of food stock
  • Fair prices for food
  • Community based solution
  • Opportunity for school to upgrade
  • Food quality and nutrition ensured
  • Better profitability for farmers
  • Food Security
  • Improvement of money circulation in the locality
  • Relationships improvements
  • Additional revenue to the school
  • Sustainable solution for a major issue

FTS Program is a solution for all kinds of schools, day or boarding, of all sizes, and can be implemented for maize/beans or any other grain storage. Because of how great it has worked, it has become not just a solution for hungry problems, but, since the kids will attend more int the schools and their parents are encouraged to send their children to school because of the meals, FTS turned, also, in a educational tool in Africa.

Read the news report made by ONU about the Program and its results here (in portuguese).