I hope you are having a very happy holiday season and that you have eaten something traditional and delicious, maybe even from another country like Italy. Panettonethat Stollen German Among chopped legs English, wind cake or puff pastry filled with nuts and alcohol, what can you do at home.
While we enjoy our favorite dishes, we fear that this winter in particular and 2023 in general will be very difficult for many families. “Every day, 400,000 children in London eat the same dinner: nothing”we notified the NGO The Felix Project.
In one of the richest cities in the world, four out of ten low-income parents start skipping meals to ensure that their children have something on their plates, a reality that many Spanish parents also suffer from. JamieOliverone of Britain’s most iconic chefs, has found a practical solution to the problem; want to increase the number of children who benefit from the free school canteen and uses his fame to put trouble on the table at great Britain.
Invited to help with the selection of news topics for Todayflagship program from BBC radio, Oliver has interviewed children, parents, principals and Westminster school cooksarea of the British parliament and area with many children in need.
“Here at the same time we have children who are having a three course meal for their breakfast, pancakes homemade bananas, yogurt and granola, and the other received two cookies on the way to school“, the director told Jamie. “We asked all these children to engage in studies in the same way and store the same amount of knowledge in their heads, but under very different conditions.”
The Headmaster is pleased that the local Westminster politicians have decided that all students receive their school meals free of charge, very generous size for a single mother who works at the school as a support teacher and who pays 68 euros a month for her daughter’s hot meals. Oliver has also interviewed the former Prime Minister Tony Blair who admits it This type of action can be extended to the national level if there is political will.
In both England and Spain, there are children from underprivileged families who receive free meals in their public schools, but the current system leaves a lot behind. According to the director interviewed by Oliver, there are 15% of his students who need it, but have not received it until now. Educo and NGOs Save the Children highlighted that, although a third of Spanish boys and girls are at risk of experiencing poverty or exclusion, only 11% benefited from assistance in the dining room.
In my home country as well as here children suffer “zip code lottery” with 25% coverage in the Canary Islands and 2% in Murcia, said the NGO. Educo and Save the Children asked the government Pedro Sánchez “guaranteeing a free school canteen place for every girl and boy in poverty”apart from the Autonomous Community.
The move is so appropriate for this crisis and even deserves to be stepped up sustainable in the medium and long term promote equality in both countries. Another chef, American Ruth Rogers, who founded the Italian restaurant The River Café in London, thinks so You should offer a free dining room even for children from wealthy families. “I think every kid, whether your parents have millions or pennies, should have school meals,” Rogers said on the podcast. News Agency. This will prevent stigmatization children waited in special queues to avoid paying for their meals, he said. Indeed, there are also rich families who do not know or do not want to cook healthy food for their little ones or educate them about nutrition.
The benefits can be enormous. Rogers pointed to the success of the free breakfast offered in the North American initiative “Great Society”, started in the 1960s by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson. The children do not need state assistance from adults, he said. Quality, healthy, rich and free food in public schools, can unite people sociallyan integral part of quality education.
Of course, a rich, healthy, and free-for-all food utopia, unites people, clashes with the current reality of food in many schools where fees are adjusted and many issue cooks for hire catering. Oliver has spent 15 years fighting to improve the quality of school meals in the UK and US, filming programs on the benefits of healthy eating for young people, such as better academic outcomes and better health as adults. in spanish, many parents struggle to improve the quality of school canteens. With increasing rates childhood obesityThe fight is very important. We are what we eat.
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