This and other data will be presented during the launching of the 3rd version f the course School Feeding as an Educational Strategy for a Healthy Life, promoted by the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation.
Brasília, April 20, 2022 – In the year that it turns 10, the Sustainable Schools methodology has already been implemented in 15 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and is a reality in more than 23,000 schools. To present this and other data of a decade of Sustainable Schools in the LAC region, the webinar “Sustainable Schools – A decade of transformation of school feeding programs, focusing on human rights to adequate food ” will be held. The event will also launch the study ‘The situational status of Sustainable Schools’. The webinar will be broadcast by FAO on YouTube and by theTwitter FaoBrasilCoop, on May 4, 2022, at 2:30 pm (Barbados time zone) with simultaneous translation into English and Spanish.
The virtual event also inaugurates the 3rd version of the course School Feeding as an Educational Strategy for a Healthy Life, promoted by the project Consolidation of School Feeding Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean, of the Brazil-FAO International Cooperation Program.
In the 2022 version, the course is offered for professionals from four countries: Colombia, Guatemala, Peru and the Dominican Republic. In the last two editions, approximately 5,000 professionals in the region’s school feeding area were trained.
The project Consolidation of School Feeding Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean is a trilateral south-south cooperation initiative carried out jointly by the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC/MRE), the National Fund for Educational Development (FNDE/ MEC) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
The Healthy Life Course integrates the commitments of the Sustainable School Feeding Network (RAES, for its acronym in Spanish), implemented by the Government of Brazil with the support of FAO, to promote the development of capacities and the exchange of experiences among countries for the strengthening of school feeding programs in the region.
Sustainable Schools in the region
During the webinar, the main data of the study “The situational status of Sustainable Schools in Latin America and the Caribbean 2021”, produced within the scope of the project, will be presented. The Sustainable Schools methodology, developed since 2012, allows the collective construction of a good school feeding practice and aims to scale this policy to the national level. It also focus on reaching all schools, all students and on being executed the entire school year, offering a nutritious diet, rich in fresh and healthy products acquired from family farming. The methodology is an effort to reach the highest quality and the sustainability of school feeding programs.
During the 13 weeks of the Healthy Life 2022 course, the participants will learn more about each of the components of Sustainable Schools, especially regarding food and nutrition education.
The Sustainable Schools methodology, developed since 2012, allows the collective construction of a good school feeding practice and aims to scale this policy to the national level, reaching all schools, all students and for the entire school year, adopting a varied diet, rich in fresh and healthy products acquired from family farming. This methodology is an effort to guarantee the maximum quality and the sustainability of the school feeding programs.
Date: May 4th
Time: 2:30 pm (Barbados time zone)
Broadcast available in Spanish: fao.org/americas/eventos/ver/es/c/1506042/
Broadcast available in English: fao.org/americas/eventos/ver/en/c/1506033/
