Paraguay’s interns at Lower Piura Valley

LA ARENA, Peru – Memberrs of the Economic and Social Planning Technical Secretary of Paraguay Republic arrived to Ricardo Palma School for learning the successful experience of feeding service management  brought by Midis Qali Warma to 871 high-school students.

The visit was made as frame of the Territorial Articulation and Management of Social Programmes internship inside the Peru-Paraguay Bilateral Project, and it was purposed to know the processes of articulation implemented by the School Feeding Committee, through it was gotten the students to have a harmlessness, tasty, and nutritive breakfast and lunch, according to the guidelines directed by the social programme.

The school has a kitchen and an exclusive use warehouse. With the contribution of the local government and the educational community, it was purchased the kitchen and the household. Also, the persons in charge of the preparation, distribution, and serving of meals have been trained in good practice of food handling by personnel with the Ministry of Health. Plus, the school implemented an orchard to complement the breakfast and the lunch.

“We see a whole network was set promoting the communitarian participation where multiple initiatives born to pull the community’s development, a very good experience we are going to bring to Paraguay, for explaining that the things can be made if everyone puts an extra mile and gets engaged,” the Paraguayan delegation member Bart Willems said.

On his side, the Ricardo Palma School’s Principal Gualberto Ruesta Salazar ranked the visit as a recognizement to the job they are doing, and he pointed out that the consolidation of the

 co-management model at the school allows the articulated work between the public and private sector, adding the commitment of the School’s Feeding Committee and the educational community members, who are in charge of the meal service management in the organization as well as the social accountability.

During the internship, La Arena District’s Mayor Carlos Yarlequé García, representatives of Piura Regional Government, and Peru’s Governmen, Family Parents AAssociation, School’s Feeding Committee, and Choice Humanitaria NGO  participated too.

Photos provided by MIDIS