{"id":1336,"date":"2019-12-11T05:21:44","date_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?p=1336"},"modified":"2019-12-11T05:30:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T10:30:30","slug":"rural-primary-school-breakfast-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/rural-primary-school-breakfast-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Primary School Breakfast Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This was originally a Global Family program that I was put in charge of implementing during my first term in Cambodia. MCC had a breakfast program at a Primary School just outside of Phnom Penh previously but they wanted it to move to a rural location where it would help more vulnerable students. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"470\" height=\"309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/69294881_10157863508454589_9115361469150527488_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/69294881_10157863508454589_9115361469150527488_n.jpg 470w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/69294881_10157863508454589_9115361469150527488_n-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/69294881_10157863508454589_9115361469150527488_n-456x300.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p> There&#8217;s a longer story there that I might tell later but I&#8217;m really amazed at how the program has grown over the last ten years. The service workers and national staff who came after me did incredible work. I&#8217;ll be describing the current Rural Primary School Program piece by piece, but I wanted to start with the original initiative that I worked on &#8211; the breakfast program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1341\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=1341\" class=\"wp-image-1341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082933-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1342\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/?attachment_id=1342\" class=\"wp-image-1342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083111-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The breakfast program serves <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"rice porridge (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/visal-wedding-rice-porridge\/\" target=\"_blank\">rice porridge<\/a> &#8211; similar to what we ate at Visal&#8217;s wedding. It is inexpensive, uses local ingredients, and has good nutritional value (at least the way MCC provides it with chicken and veggies). There have been many studies showing how good nutrition aids early education but it&#8217;s also removes a financial barrier to education. If the children are provided a meal that&#8217;s one less meal the family has to provide for them &#8211; meaning that it&#8217;s easier to send them to school than to send them to work in the rice field. I often heard that from villagers directly during my first term in Cambodia and it&#8217;s apparent in the statistics too, attendance improves significantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-630x840.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-960x1280.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_082800_1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>MCC Rural Education Coordinator Martin and the Village School Support Committee Leader.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the breakfast program is initiated alongside community organizing to get parents and local leaders involved. MCC then slowly begins to reduce our contribution to the breakfast program as the community slowly increases it&#8217;s contribution. The goal is a sustainable transition where the community provides breakfast for students&#8230;but it&#8217;s not always feasible in improvised communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was originally a Global Family program that I was put in charge of implementing during my first term in Cambodia. MCC had a breakfast program at a Primary School just outside of Phnom Penh previously but they wanted it to move to a rural location where it would help more vulnerable students. There&#8217;s a&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/2019\/rural-primary-school-breakfast-program\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[93,85,95,138],"class_list":["post-1336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mcc-in-cambodia","tag-education","tag-mcc","tag-prey-veng","tag-rural","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_20191206_083219-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVixa-ly","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1345,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1336\/revisions\/1345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.charlesconklin.com\/4cambodia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}