You cannot teach a child who is thinking about hunger.
In the villages around Neemrana, many families send children to school without breakfast — not from neglect, but from constraint. Agriculture-dependent households in Alwar district face irregular income, and food for young children competes with food for working adults. A mid-day meal at preschool is often the most nutritious meal a child has all day.
The research is unambiguous: school nutrition programmes improve attendance by 15–20%, reduce early dropout, and directly improve cognitive performance on standardised assessments. When children know they will eat at school, parents are more willing to send them. When children eat at school, teachers can actually teach.
₹800 per month. That is all it takes to ensure one child at the Neemrana preschool arrives and stays nourished for a full academic month. ₹9,600 funds a full year. ₹20,000 feeds two children for a year. Every figure is exact and traceable.
Feeding children is one part. Here is the complete preschool programme.
Nutrition, learning materials, and trained teachers work together. A well-fed child with a poor curriculum learns less than a well-fed child with excellent teaching.
Daily Nutrition
A warm mid-day meal for each enrolled child on every school day. Grains, pulses, vegetables — locally sourced, freshly cooked. This is what you are funding here. The meal that unlocks the rest of the learning day.
Sponsor meals →Learning Materials
Books, flashcards, and stationery kits work alongside nutrition — a child who eats can concentrate; a child who concentrates needs good materials to learn from. Both are funded through MMF's preschool programme.
Sponsor kits →Trained Teachers
The trained educator who turns a nutritious, alert child into an educated child. Teacher salary and training are funded separately — together with nutrition, they form the complete early childhood programme.
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Sponsor 10 Children's Education
Complete sponsorship including nutrition, books, and teacher support for 10 children.
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The full operational budget that includes the nutrition programme.
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The learning materials that work alongside nutrition.
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