Handover of School Lunch Preparation Center made by Japan

The school Lunch Preparation Center built with the support of the Japanese government has been handed over.

On Monday, the Japanese Embassy in Kathmandu handed over a  school lunch preparation center built with Japanese assistance at Budhanilkantha Municipality in Kathmandu.

By issuing a statement, the Japanese Embassy said that the new building has been built with the support of $87,499 under the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) of the Government of Japan. More than 200 programs have been implemented in Nepal from this project.

Japanese Ambassador for Nepal Kikuta Yakuta appreciated the efforts of all who worked together with the embassy to complete the project and hoped that the center will improve the educational environment for the students of public schools in Kathmandu.

The center will be operated by Food for Life Nepal. Food for Life was established in 2015 with the aim of providing 'mid-day meals to children in public schools in Budhanilkantha Municipality.  Food for Life previously did not have sufficient kitchen space to prepare all the required school lunches. With the construction of this center, it is now able to provide school lunches to more than 7,000 students in public schools in Budhanilkantha and Tokha municipalities, the embassy said in the statement.

"The Embassy of Japan believes that the new center will provide nutritious school lunches to students and contribute to improving their educational environment," the embassy added in the statement.

GGP was established to implement projects directly benefiting people at the grassroots level for the community's socio-economic development. Since 1991, over 200 GGP projects have been implemented in Nepal, according to the embassy.