Healthy Life Through Proper Nutrition -Local Recipes (Sri Lanka, 2024)

Save the Children’s ‘Food for Education and Child Nutrition Programme (PALAM/A II Project)’, made possible by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), primarily focuses on literacy and nutrition to reduce short-term hunger among school-age children while simultaneously enhancing student attendance and attentiveness in classrooms. The programme and continues to leverage and build on the existing partnership with the Government of Sri Lanka, to build long-term sustainable approaches to the ongoing National School Meal Programme (NSMP) to ensure learning and nutritional outcomes.

This book consists of a collection of local recipes shared by School Meal Providers from across 7 districts in Sri Lanka, who are part of the Government’s NSMP and cook daily, healthy morning meals for children.