Janjan is already 8 years old but with his small stature and skinny body, you would mistake him to be 6. Both his parents are farmers and being the eldest in the family, he is no stranger to household chores such as fetching water early in the morning.
Most of the time, he skips breakfast to make it to school on time. Or else, he packs dried fish and a cup of rice just to get by.
Janjan just sat there among the 200 kids identified by the school principal to be undernourished. Janjan’s dream is to become a pilot. With proper nutrition, who knows he could become one in the future?
But for now, our dream for him is to become healthy and sound in order to finish his schooling. This is the reason that despite a very treacherous road to his school, the CITE Feeding Team never backed down in order to bring to them healthy and quality foods from Century Pacific Group to supplement their nutrition.
The program launch on November 15 allowed us to see upfront how education has been affected by malnutrition. The team also met the parents and gave them a talk on family values.
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Feeding children in public school is needed because most of this children need the required daily nutrients for their body.Since most of this kids are poor, most of them are malnourished and need our help.
Joseph @ volunteer in cambodia
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