Seshadri, Shreelata Rao
(2020)
Addressing the nutritional needs of school children.
Learning Curve (7).
pp. 23-27.
ISSN 2582-1644
Abstract
Imagine a young child in a typical government
school in India. This little girl is six years old and
getting ready for school. Her mother is getting
ready too because she must be in the field by 7 am.
She has no time to make breakfast for the little girl
or her brother. The little girl barely has time to wash
her face and get into her school uniform. There is a
bit of rice leftover from the night before, which the
mother hurriedly divides between her two children
– barely a mouthful each. Then, they run to school,
just in time for the assembly. As they file into their
classrooms for their first lesson, the little girl feels
a familiar rumble in her stomach – she is hungry,
and lunch is several hours away. It is going to be
another long morning.
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