It's Hard to Learn When You're Hungry!

Having visited Pizz in early February, it was great to see the lunch box programme working well to provide food for the children. I spent time with the students whilst they had their meal and you could really see how much they appreciated the lunch and how much of an impact it was having on their lives. From talking to the students and teachers I discovered that offering free school lunches has helped keep children in school. This one guaranteed meal a day, is also helping to improve results as the students are now spending more time in school due to improved attendance.

I find it incredible to think that £1.25 can feed a child for a month in Zambia. When you are there, you can really see the impact that donations like yours have on the students.

I had the opportunity to visit the kitchen whilst I was there (see picture below), it was amazing to see how much cooking was done using such basic equipment. I hope that we can help develop the kitchen at Pizz in the future.

Having seen this project first hand, I believe that it is crucial we continue to send funds for lunches as it is helping so many children (550 now). I’d like to thank everyone who has already donated and hope we can continue working together to help the children at Pizz.

So far with your amazing support we have been providing lunches to children at PIZZ school which has helped raise their attendance and grades. With the students being guaranteed at least one meal a day they will come to school a lot more frequently which has a knock-on effect to their grades. Without this some children would be tempted to work instead in order for them to afford a meal.

Currently, the school has 509 children having lunches, this has been growing year by year which is a great feat that we would not have been able to do without your help. We have found that it is a great way to keep children attending school, so this project is worth a lot in terms of their education.

With £1.25 being enough to feed a student for a month it does not take much to ensure that the vulnerable children at PIZZ are getting the nutrition they need daily. This goes a huge way in order to ensuring that students can grow into healthy adults as well as helping their education.

The school recently held its Christmas party which went very well with many of the students attending to celebrate Christmas and all the hard work they have done over the last year. We want to thank you all for all the work you have done over the last year which has gone towards this project, you are all making a huge difference to children’s lives.