Lesson-101357-6

Offering free lunches in schools serving vulnerable children. The ENHANCE project provided support to a humanitarian school in Ho Chi Minh City serving migrant children. Through project support, the school offered school lunches, a strategy both project managers and Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs officials reported to be effective at keeping migrant children in school for longer hours. According to the school’s director, “Before ENHANCE support, children went to school for a half day and left before lunch time… some children were met by their parents at the school gate with lottery tickets in hand—they went sell those on the street. Since we started providing lunch, many of these children stay in school, had a good meal, a good rest, and time to study in the afternoon.”