Daily school meals
He wasn't distracted. He was hungry.
By ten in the morning I could not hear the teacher properly. Now we eat at one, and the afternoon is fine.Joseph, 11 — Gulu, Uganda
Before
Joseph's teacher had him marked down as inattentive for two years. He was quiet, he drifted, he did badly on afternoon assessments and fine on morning ones — a pattern nobody had put together, because nobody was looking for it.
What changed
His school joined the meal program in 2024. Lunch is maize and beans with greens, cooked on site, with a protein three days a week. It costs about twenty-five cents a plate.
Since
His afternoon assessment scores are now within two marks of his morning ones. Across his school, attendance rose fourteen points in two terms. His principal puts it plainly: most of what she'd been treating as behavior was hunger.
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