Fiji
School food activities in Fiji
Cicia High School Feeding Program
Garden and feeding program (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Started: 2006
Status: Ongoing
Reach: One boarding and day school on Cicia Island, every day during the school year
School level: Secondary
Managed by: Cicia Island school and 5 local villages
Green Schools Program
Garden program
Started: 2020
Status: Ongoing
Reach: Two Maritime Islands public boarding schools, Monday – Friday during the school year
School level: Primary
Program goals:
- Improve food security for students
- Improve nutrition status
- Improving socioeconomics of schools by decreasing reliance of schools on funding for school food and community food supply
- Support connecting of the younger generation to culture and land (from spiritual and practical element)
- Integration of wider community into school garden
- Implemented by Pacific Blue Foundation who support management with local traditional governance/leaders and school mother’s group
Watch a video that outlines the Green Schools program on this page.
Maritime Islands Boarding School Feeding Program
Feeding program (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Started: 2020
Status: Ongoing
Reach: Public boarding school, Maritime Islands. Monday – Friday during the school year.
School level: Primary
TKC Gardening Pilot Project
Garden program
Started: 2022
Status: Finished 2022 (6-week pilot)
National
Reach: One public day school
School level: Secondary
Program goals:
- To increase students’ awareness and appreciation of local foods
- Foster students’ connection to the land
Save the Children Feeding Program
Feeding program
Started: 2016
Status: Finished, temporary disaster relief program
Reach: 16 boarding and day schools adversely affected by natural disasters
School level: Unsure
Lead implementers: Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts and Save the Children Fiji
Stakeholders engaged: Teachers, Parents Teachers Association and the Women’s group.
Free Milk initiative
Feeding program (snack)
Started: 2015
Status: Finished
National
Reach: Day and Boarding Schools, Monday – Friday during the school year
School level: Primary (Year 1 students only)
Program goals:
- Assist reach daily calcium needs and improve nutrition status among year 1 students
- Influence children to develop a lifelong healthy habit of consuming milk and milk products and reach calcium needs
- To meet educational goals
- To meet nutritional and/or health goals
Lead implementers: Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts
Free Fruit initiative
Feeding program (snack)
Started: Unsure
Status: Unsure
National
Reach: Public and Private schools, Monday – Friday during the school year
School level: Early childhood
Program goals:
- To meet educational goals
- To meet nutritional and/or health goals
Lead implementers: Ministry of Education, Heritage and Arts
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