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EDUCATION · NUTRITIONNanigi · Iftin · 2019

A glass of milk, and a reason to stay in school.

In March 2019, Fountain of Hope set out a ten-week school milk program: 59 ECD pupils in Nanigi Primary and 210 in Iftin Primary receiving milk twice a week — a small intervention against child malnutrition, and for enrollment and retention.

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“For the next 10 wks (except holiday) 59 ECD pupils in Nanigi Primary and 210 in Iftin Primary will get milk twice a week. This project aims at reducing Non-Communicable diseases in children by improving their nutrition & enhancing enrollment and retention in school.”

13 Mar 2019 · @Fountain_FOH on X
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Malnutrition is a health crisis that shows up in a classroom: a hungry child cannot attend, cannot focus, cannot stay. The ten-week school milk program took the fight into the school day — milk twice a week for the youngest pupils at Nanigi and Iftin primary schools, to improve nutrition, reduce non-communicable diseases in children, andenhance enrollment and retention.

The story, in frames

Nutrition as a school matter.

The glass of milk is small. What it buys — a child present, a child learning, a child growing — is anything but.

Frame 01 / 03School milk for ECD pupils in Nanigi and Iftin primary schools

The milk — twice a week, for ten weeks — for children in Nanigi and Iftin primary schools.

School milk · Mar 2019
Frame 02 / 03Children and teachers during the school milk program

Children and teachers at the center of a small, daily act of nutrition.

School milk · Mar 2019
Frame 03 / 03A classroom moment during the school milk program

A program built to reduce child non-communicable diseases and keep pupils learning.

School milk · Mar 2019
— The story —

Two schools, ten weeks, twice a week.

59 ECD pupils in Nanigi Primary and 210 in Iftin Primary were part of the program — milk twice a week for ten weeks, apart from the holiday.

Nutrition and schooling are the same fight. The program aimed to reduce non-communicable diseases in children by improving their nutrition, enhancing enrollment and retention along the way.

March 2019 · ten weeks
Nanigi & Iftin primary schools
59 ECD pupils (Nanigi) · 210 ECD pupils (Iftin)
Note for the team: the story is drawn from the verified post of 13 March 2019. The last three photographs predate it by days and are likely from the same project — please confirm each against the original posts before publishing.
The project in photographs

The milk program, in frames.

Six photographs from March 2019. Captions marked “verify” predate the confirmed post — click each photo to view it full screen.

In the record

What the record shows.

Two documented records from the same ECD pilot in Garissa's schools — milk for nutrition during the school day, and incentives that encouraged enrolment.

RMNCAH-N, EducationGarissa Township Primary, Nanigi Primary School

Malnutrition advocacy pilot project in two ECD centers

Date
Mar. 2019 – Sept. 2019
Reach / Impact
Provision of 7,000 packets of milk as a supplementary...
RMNCAH-NGarissa Township Primary, Nanigi Primary School

Use of incentives to encourage enrollment into ECD centres

Date
Mar. 2019 – Sept. 2019
Reach / Impact
Provision of teddy bears to ECD pupils as an incentive to enroll into school.

Documented in Fountain of Hope's portfolio of interventions.

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