Egypt To Prepare Healthy Generation Of Students Via Good School Nutrition

Education Minister Tarek Shawqi has inaugurated “Silo Foods” industrial city which he says would affect the health and development of the citizens.

Shawqi said that the government has a plan to prepare a healthy generation of students via good school nutrition.

In his speech during the inauguration, Shawqi said the pre-university education system involves 24 million students, adding that work is underway in many schools to produce a new system that depends on building identity and personality via building healthy body and mind through school nutrition.

The Education Minister said the school nutrition presented by the Ministry of Education aims at providing healthy nutrition for students in addition to activities that will contribute to preparing a healthy generation.

The nutrition program targets 12 million students and one million at Azhar schools.