Our mid-day meal at the Rainbow School is made in a central kitchen and then delivered to the school by the extremely competent and experienced folks at the Naandi Foundation, our main NGO partner. This meal is engineered and fortified to provide an entire day of nutrition for a child. I noticed that new students look substantially different after one week of mid-day meals at the school. They have shining eyes and they are full of bouncy energy. And I noticed in past years that after school holidays - like during the last week - all the children look drawn and tired. They do not get enough food at home. It makes me happy to know the mid-day meal was there for them this week when school started again. A few days ago, one of the trucks from the Naandi Foundation's mid-day meal program was attacked as part of a larger outbreak of political violence. This is an example of the type of random events that threaten support structures for schools in the developing world. This artic
a Government School in the Masthan Nagar Neighborhood, Hyderabad