Argentina Commits to Nutrition for Children’s Development and Learning

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FONPLATA’s Executive Board of Directors approved a 50-million-US-dollar funding for ALIMENTAR, the Program to Strengthen the School Food Service of the Province of Buenos Aires.

This program aims at improving children’s nutrition in the early learning and primary levels in state schools of 25 municipalities of the Province of Buenos Aires by providing three daily meals: breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks.

The school meal service functions both as factor of attraction and retention of students. Food services are tools to reach universal primary education, to ensure social integration and to reduce nutritional imbalance. As they supply nutritional and well-balanced meals, they also improve learning and cognitive abilities.

Currently, this new decentralized management model of school food services reaches more than 550,000 children and 2,328 schools in 25 municipalities, and it is expected to reach more than 700,000 pupils and 35 municipalities by 2021.

FONPLATA is a Development Bank composed of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. It was founded in 1974 with the mission of contributing to the economic and social development of its member countries. It funds small- and medium-sized projects, especially in vulnerable urban areas, rural areas and border regions in order to promote integration among countries or regions of one country.

07/18/2019

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