Minister of Education Azmi Mahafzah Monday visited a productive kitchen in Madaba, part of the World Food Program’s (WFP) Healthy Kitchen Project to provide nutritious meals to pupils and promote healthier eating habits among Jordanian children. The project not only provides students with healthy alternatives, but creates jobs in community-based productive kitchens as well. The minister was accompanied by the Chinese and German ambassadors to Jordan, representatives of the Italian embassy and the WFP, and Director General of the Royal Health Awareness Society (RHAS) Amal Ireifij. Touring the kitchen’s facilities to look firsthand at its products, Mahafzah stressed the ministry’s commitment to creating an attractive and encouraging education environment and the positive impact of food programs on students’ health and achievement. He thanked the WFP and donor countries for supporting the project, noting the ministry’s efforts to expand food programs that encompass as many schools as possible, especially underprivileged communities. The Madaba productive kitchen, with a staff of 300 local women, houses two facilities producing 18,000 meals daily, adhering to the Jordan Food and Drug Administration’s health standards. The ministry’s meal distribution plan targets some 84,000 pupils from kindergarten to sixth grade.
Source: Jordan News Agency