Through its Food for Development Office (FfDO), Tetra Pak works in close partnership with governments, development agencies, NGOs, local dairies and farmers to deliver more than 6bn packages of milk and other nutritious drinks to almost 50m children in schools in over 50 countries around the world.
School milk programmes continue to grow, especially in developing countries, where the number of packages supplied to schools increased by 23% to almost 3.4bn packages from 2008 to 2009.
“We’re delighted to see school milk programmes growing across the world,” said Ulla Holm, global director, Tetra Pak Food for Development Office. “The programmes are extremely important for improving the health, development and education of children, while helping to develop the agricultural sector and local economy in the region.”
Tetra Pak is partnering with the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) and the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) to provide milk on a daily basis to over 7,000 primary schoolchildren in 41 schools.
A key aim of the programme is to improve local health and education levels and increase school enrolment. The programme has been credited with providing direct and indirect employment opportunities for more than 50 people, and an increase in school enrolment from 5,200 to 7,000 children.
Gaza and the West Bank Cooperating with the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and the World Food Programme (WFP), Tetra Pak supports the school milk programme in Gaza and the West Bank. The programme reaches 146,000 schoolchildren.
A new school milk pilot programme is under way in Kharkov, which supplies milk in Tetra Pak packages to more than 10,000 children every day. Tetra Pak also partners with the schools to run educational programmes on healthy lifestyles.
Promoted by Olympic Champion Ekaterina Serebryanskaya, the children participate in morning exercises and collect empty packages for recycling. The aim is to expand this programme on a national level.
Tetra Pak is supporting the start-up and operation of a school milk programme in partnership with the mayor of Dakar. Aimed at improving the children’s nutrition, attendance and academic performance in 11 elementary schools in Dakar, the programme is expected to expand and cover additional schools in order to support health and development initiatives, the dairy sector and rural employment.
A new school milk programme is under way in partnership with the MilkoS dairy. 10 Sarajevo schools receive ‘S-cool milk’ in a unique Tetra Pak school milk package that isn’t available commercially.
Source: Tetra Pak
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