{"id":9642,"date":"2025-01-29T19:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T18:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ciaokids.org\/cksite\/portfolio_page\/midday-meal\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T18:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T16:46:12","slug":"midday-meal","status":"publish","type":"portfolio_page","link":"https:\/\/ciaokids.org\/en\/portfolio_page\/midday-meal\/","title":{"rendered":"Midday meal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our goal<\/strong> is to provide a freshly cooked balanced meal that improves the children\u2019s attention span<\/strong>, allowing them to follow their lessons and continue their schooling.<\/em><\/h4>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text css=””]According to the latest data from the Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, about 32% of adolescents are stunted. Undernutrition in children is a major cause of morbidity and mortality that hinders their long-term physical and mental development. <\/p>\n

A hungry child cannot concentrate during lessons and drops out of school, unable to cope.<\/strong> School is not only a place of learning, but it also plays an important role in children’s health and nutrition.<\/p>\n

School meal programs have been recognized as an effective intervention to address both education and nutritional outcomes for school-aged children in developing countries. This is how the CIAO KIDS Foundation’s midday meal program came into being. To date, more than 700 primary school children receive a hot meal every day.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For CHF 20<\/strong> you allow 3 Nepalese students to eat a hot meal per day at school for a month.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space]Make a donation<\/i><\/a>[vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]\n\t\t\t

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