The cost to students of meals in the school canteen or the boarding school or dormitory canteen is that of the raw materials the cost of meals for children and foster children (at boarding schools and dormitories) are covered by the school budget (institution).

Lesson One in School Food

It is mainly directed towards young persons at boarding schools and dormitories, eating meals in the canteens of these institutions, or eating in school canteens.

Ann Cooper talks school lunches

Do you provide school lunch?

We had an early lunch at school.

Possibility of having meals in the canteen of a school, boarding school or dormitory, or reimbursement of payments for services provided

Did you finish that big meal already?

A regimental matter for the colonel.

Feeding in primary schools is provided in many countries.

Major, dinner's nearly over. Aren't you going in?

I took him to the most expensive restaurant on campus.

In State schools in Ecuador the Government runs a school food programme for indigenous children, yet a study shows that over 1.3 million pupils do not regularly receive the breakfasts and lunches provided under the programme.

The program was gradually transformed over the years as students, whether out of choice or necessity, increasingly came to rely on school lunch rather than bringing their own. The percentage of children who qualify for a free or reduced price school lunch has grown to 48 , or about 20 million and school lunch (and increasingly, breakfast and even dinner) is now a significant part of many children s diets.

NEW YORK Had you told me a year ago that I would attend a conference devoted to school lunches, I would have laughed. The closest that I have come to eating a school lunch lately is coach class food on long haul flights.

So the first ones are if you want the usual suspects, hire teachers, school meals, school uniforms, scholarships.

(iii) Rational and diet meals at school, college and university canteens, to be organized by the Ministry of Education, Sciences and Technology.

We need 40 minute lunches most schools have 20 minute lunches and lunches that are time appropriate.

My thing with school lunch is, it's a social justice issue.

In schools where WFP is supporting a school feeding programme, deworming pills were distributed during training sessions on practical health and hygiene education.

Special incentives such as the provision of uniforms, textbooks and meals in schools were available to promote the education of girls.

The Government had also initiated a programme that provided one balanced meal to every schoolchild each day, with a view to improving attendance.

We continue to provide school meals, uniforms, textbooks, and access to information technology to those who are less fortunate, so that they may not be left behind.

A pilot WFP school feeding programme was implemented, covering 23 schools and over 6,000 students, which will be extended to 60,000 students, throughout the country in 2005.

(xiii) Mid day meal (nutritious breakfast meal) will be served earlier and targeted to needy schools, identified in prior surveys.

It looks like your average high school cafeteria in your average town in America.

And the way I look at it is If you don't have knives and forks in your school, you're purely endorsing, from a state level, fast food, because it's handheld.

Children from indigent families are provided with free lunch at government expense at their school of attendance.

The teachers in rural schools will be encouraged to arrange preparation of this meal in school with parent participation.

Mr. De Winter informed me that his sister, Mrs. Lacy, and Major Lacy are expected for luncheon.

Through its school feeding operation, which targets over 1.2 million children, WFP has continued to contribute to the enhancement of children's school attendance.

The National School Lunch Program spends 8 billion dollars feeding 30 million children a year.

Local governments provide funding for study materials, the maintenance and repairs of school buildings, the technical staff at school, meals of students and utilities.

Incentives to be provided such as free textbooks, school nutrition, scholarships and loans to students in both government and NGO institutions.

So my breakfast, my lunch, I donate it to a charity that I founded because we want to build a school in Sudan.

These incentives include the provision by the State and NGOs of assistance in the form of free text books, exercise books and school uniforms, in addition to the advantage of use of the school canteens, which are becoming increasingly common in rural areas.

Breakfast is served. Lunch is served. Dinner...

About 41 countries have adopted a child friendly package approach which promotes physical improvements in schools together with the training of teachers and such interventions as school meals.

They are found in the following sectors neighbourhood stores, restaurants, exhibitions, sale of handicrafts, flower exports, ornamental plant shops, traditional and vocational schools, and bakeries.

In Lachin town, the FFM found signs of normal urban existence, including shopping, dining in restaurants, and going to school (albeit often without heat or electricity in all three cases).

But each bag we'd sell would provide a year's worth of school meals for one kid.

And people are bringing their green industries, hopefully their green restaurants, to the Green School.

There was just a big study done, and so many schools are starting lunch at nine and 10 in the morning.

It is assisting families in eight counties through its emergency school feeding programme, which reaches more than 360,000 school children.

To support female education, WFP required half the beneficiaries of all school feeding projects to be girls.