Please do not upvote this reply as I would rather you save the Cost for another post like this.

I must start with saying that I am absolutely floored by the initiative taken on by @azizbd for starting and running this school. As a teacher I completely understand the desire not only to provide an educatio, which every single child is entitled to, but for making sure that these kids are not only educated but fed and mlooked after. Being from Canada we don’t see the level of poverty that is experienced in many places around the world but we do have poverty. I have worked in schools were the kids in your class are just so happy to be at school because it a a safe place to be for 7 hours and they don’t have to worry about the stresses that are their real life. I have had 6 year old kids in grade 1 come to school with no lunch and have no idea how they were getting home at the end of the day.

The lunch program at our school during my practice teaching always impressed me. We were providing a meal for kids that otherwise would have gone the entire day and possibly the night without eating. Sometimes people in the education community get caught up in the day to day comics and goings of delivering the curriculum. My first few years as a teacher showed me that there is a whole lot more to my job then the government mandated curriculum.

Don’t get me wrong, the curriculum is very important and eagerly child in entitled to an education. They are also entitled to a healthy life where they are looked after by caring parents and have access to a full meal every day. How can we possibly educate kids who are malnutrited and suffering from mistreatment of even depression. We must first create an environment where these children feel safe and secure and then education can happen. Thank you for this post @adsactly and even more so thank you for getting involved in such a great initiative!!!