Page 5 - The Daily Builder - Day 03

MeeT MiriAM And deo

Miriam enjoys
helping her mother
with washing
utensils, sweeping
and fetching water.
Her favorite subject
is mathematics. She

enjoys her classes,
and she wants to
become a teacher in
the future.

Deo likes playing
football (the soccer

kind) with friends
Students break from classes at 10 a.m. to drink milk. Attendance is up 10 percent throughout the school since the and doing homework.
milk program began, and other schools participating in the project report similar boosts in attendance.
He is friendly and
gets along well with
From page 3 parents do their best to provide other schools participating in the his peers. His favorite
they need to become successful frayed sweaters and tattered milk project report as well. subject is English. He
and achieve some buying power pants that are worn but clean. All A compact delivery truck enjoys his classes, and
of their own, a new generation of students are expected to scrub plastered with cartoon milk ads
consumers is born. their nails and keep their hair tidy putters up the dirt road to the he wants to become
A student whacks a rusty truck and cropped close to their heads. school each morning around a pilot.
wheel with a stick in the courtyard Itunduma teacher Faraja Mgaya 10 a.m., and a team of the older
of Itunduma Primary School oversees the milk program at her students hauls coolers full of milk
each morning to announce the school, an extra duty she took on out of the back. Students hurry to
beginning of classes, and children gladly in hopes of boosting her get in line. “Most kids don’t get The cosT of milk milk to drink for a week. $72 covers an entire year
in their red sweaters and blue students’ health and academic any breakfast at home, the milk is for that student.
skirts and slacks pour in from performance. “It was a golden the first thing they get each day,” Not only does milk help improve children’s health And in return, the classroom is happier, healthier,
all directions. The Tanzanian chance,” she said. And she’s Mgaya said. and help them focus in class, it helps local dairy and more energetic. Local dairy farmers have more
government funds most of the pleased with the results. The farmers stay in business and feed their own income that they can spend in the community,
costs of public schools, but children are cleaner, more alert Thanks to Heifer International for families. supporting other business owners whose families
It doesn’t take much to support a program like this,
allowing us to bring you the story
need the income and support, and so on.
students are responsible for and in better spirits. Attendance of Tanzania’s School Milk Program. especially when the benefits are so dramatic and the Once the local economy gets that boost, everyone
their own uniforms. In poor is up an average of 10 percent You can find the original story and ripple effect can be felt throughout the community. has the chance to thrive. And it all starts with a
communities like the one where throughout the school since the more photos in Heifer’s All it takes is $2 a day, and one student will have glass of milk a day—the best 33 cents we’ve spent.
Itunduma Primary is located, milk program began, a boost that World Ark magazine.

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