The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) want to better understand what schoolchildren expect and think about their school meals, meal time experiences and foods available in schools and has therefore launched the competition School food advocates.
The advocates will in their own words promote children’s rights to nutritious and more sustainable school meals, have their voice be heard during global events (such as the global Junior World Food Day event), record videos to share their experiences, and more. The voices and efforts will help echo the importance of school meals to young people and governments around the world.
We want to know what’s important about school food for students, and we want you to help us spread the word about the right of kids to enjoy healthier and more sustainable food in schools.
We are looking for five students from all over the world aged 10 to 17 that are enthusiastic about nutritious school food and everything related.
To participate you have to send:
- a fun photo of you with your favourite food or school meal;
- a short 1-minute video on why you are passionate about this topic (please read the specs below); and
- the subject release form, filled-in with the help of your parent or guardian, to give us permission to use these materials at events, on our website, and social media platforms.
Send an email (not more than 10MB) to School-Food@fao.org, including the forms and photo as attachment, and the video as a link to a cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox, etc.).
The final date to submit applications to be a School Food Advocate is 30 November 2023.
Advocates will have the opportunity to attend coaching sessions with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Food Programme staff on healthier and more sustainable school meals and on effective communication. Advocates will also receive a surprise gift bag
For further information and technical specification please refer to the material:
Or write an email to the address School-Food@fao.org.
Good luck!
