Project on healthy snacks at school is not a great success: only 89 schools participate
© Fred Debrock
This school year, only 89 schools signed up for the Snack Chill project, which promotes healthy food and distributes healthy snacks in Flemish schools. This is evident from information that Flemish MP Katrien Schryvers (CD&V) requested.
Source: Belga
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Secondary schools that register receive concrete tips on how healthy snacks can be advertised to the students and how this can be part of the school’s health policy. Healthy Living offers a starter package with materials, a step -by -step plan with manual, good examples and support. In addition, schools can buy fruit and vegetables at an affordable price.
In the 2022-2023 school year, 139 schools participated in the project. This school year 89. « It’s going in a falling line, » says Schryvers. “For schools it is currently all hands on deck. Think of the new minimum goals, the digi jump and new regulations. In addition, there is a huge teacher shortage and more and more directors are falling out. There is little room for schools to also offer healthy snacks.
« If for an easily accessible project such as Snack & Chill Schools, they already indicate that they cannot add it, then we should definitely provide the necessary support to offer (hot) meals at school, » she says. «
The government has been trying to find an agreement for several weeks on the healthy school meals that wanted ahead in the coalition agreement.
