Children eating at feeding centre in Barnersville, Monrovia

NAME OF PROJECT: Barnersville Feeding Centre

DURATION OF FMP FUNDING:  2006 - 2008
 

SUMMARY OF THIS PROJECT: Between 2006 and 2008, FMP assisted the school feeding programme in Barnersville.

KEY BENEFICIARIES OF PROJECT: 410 pupils between nursery and 6th grade, and their families.

GOAL OF PROJECT: To provide a hot nutritious meal to all students, once a day, 5 days a week, at Barnersville School.

KEY ACTIVITIES OF THIS PROJECT: FMP assisted in providing food, cooking utensils and all necessary equipment, to ensure feeding centre staff gave pupils hot and nutritious meals. The school employed cooks and well qualified nutrition staff, to prepare the menu and food.

IMPACT OF PROJECT: This Feeding Centre helped to keep the children in school. The children were extremely happy to receive their good portion of rice, meat/fish and sauce, in the middle of a school day.

QUOTES FROM PEOPLE ON THE PROJECT:  “The feeding programme has been a blessing to the little ones who benefit from it. Now, other communities in the country are appealing to us to extend similar programmes to their schools.” (Liberia Programme Officer, December 2006)