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School lunch is not only a regular hot meal for children, but also a social event. We ensure that all children have an access to it.

W4W: Lunches for Children; why have we launched the project?

The project W4W: Lunches for Children, implemented with the support of the Ministry of Education, is one of the projects of WOMEN FOR WOMEN, o.p.s. (W4W). It helps single parents who find themselves in a difficult life situation and cannot solve it themselves, but actively work to improve it. Even you can help!

The aim of the W4W: Lunches for Children project is to help children whose parents cannot afford to pay for their children's lunches in school canteens. For these children, school canteen lunches can often be the only regular hot meal a day.

Thanks to the project, the children will not only get the healthy and balanced diet they need during their growing years, but they will also be protected against exclusion from their classmates - the school lunch is an important social event for children.

Project rules:

  • The children who need the help of the project are selected by the school itself.

  • The project account is transparent.

  • 100% of the funds from the transparent account go to school lunches for specific children only.

  • Children are guaranteed anonymity.

  • The money is paid directly to the school or boarding facility, not to the parents.

  • If parents repeatedly let lunches lapse, the child is dropped from the project.

  • Unused meal allowances are returned to the project account.

Who is the project intended to:

For children whose nutrition and integration into the community are threatened by their parents' economic issues.

What the project offers:

Payment of school meals for children whose parents are in a difficult financial situation and cannot pay for them themselves.

Project objectives:

Provide socially disadvantaged children with regular healthy meals and protection from social exclusion.

Lunches for Children - 10 years

2013
ESTABLISHMENT OF THE W4W: LUNCHES FOR CHILDREN PROJECT
After a report about starving children aired on CT's 168 Hours, we knew that W4W had to solve the problem. And so on 12 September 2013 - spontaneously and quickly - the W4W: Lunches for Children project was born. The first children had lunch on 1 October of the same year.
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2014
MAPPING THE SITUATION OF SINGLE PARENTS
Thanks to our knowledge and experience, a research mapping the real situation of single parents was created. We forwarded the results to the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs to draw attention to a hidden problem. The MoLSA subsequently decided to support the W4W: Lunches for Children project.
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2015
SIGNIFICANT PATRONAGE AND SUPPORT
The W4W: Lunches for Children project received the auspices of the Ministry of Education and W4W became a member of the Ministry of Education's working group called "School Lunches". In the same year, the project received the patronage of the Union of Towns and Municipalities of the Czech Republic and the Association of Regions of the Czech Republic. NIVEA became the main partner of the project.
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2016
FED CHILDREN THRIVE BETTER
A survey carried out by W4W at the end of the 2015/2016 school year to evaluate the impact of the aid showed that the lunches not only fill children up, but also improve their school attendance and performance, help them integrate better into the team, and make them more enterprising, confident, calm and focused.
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2017
SIGNIFICANT SUBSIDY
The project received significant financial support from the Ministry of Education within the framework of the subsidy programme for non-governmental non-profit organisations to support school meals for primary school pupils. Following negotiations with W4W, the MoE launched the "School Lunches" project for disadvantaged children from kindergartens and primary schools, funded by the European FEAD programme.
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2018
"WORLD" SUPPORT
In April, the project was chosen by members of the American band Metallica and, as part of their European tour European tour and a concert in Prague, they supported it with a donation of 485 thousand euros. The project was supported by a 485 CZK donation from Metallica. In the following year, the group donated almost CZK 1.8 million to the project. In October, the world tennis player Novak Djokovic and his wife Jelena visited the school in Prague 4 and supported the project.
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2019
RISING SCHOOL LUNCH PRICES
In 2019, the amount paid by parents for one month of school lunches was around 500 CZK per child. In the 2019/2020 school year, the national average price for a school lunch increased from CZK 25 to CZK 26 compared to the previous year. The highest average price of lunch - CZK 29, which is one crown more than in the previous year, was recorded in Prague.
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2020
Awards for W4W
In 2020, we were invited to attend a meeting of the Frydlant City Council and a training session for school principals and school canteen managers of the Pardubice Region. We also visited Pilsen, where we received the very important award of Patron of Pilsen Education, which made us very happy!
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2021
PANDEMIC COVID-19
How did the W4W: Lunches for Children during the pandemic project work? "Your project was one of the few that did not get lost even in such a complex tangle of ever-changing regulations, helping to bridge us, educators and our students from a sense of hopelessness back to hope that not everything has stopped. Your continued help has been a great support and motivation," wrote one of the schools involved.
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2022
INTEREST IN LUNCHES RISES RAPIDLY
During the 2021/2022 school year, the average price of school lunches in each region ranged between 31 and 38 CZK. The biggest increase was in Prague, where the average price of school lunches increased from CZK 31 to CZK 38 in the second half of 2022. This year, the project managed to feed almost 19,000 schoolchildren, which represented school lunches worth more than CZK 60 million in total.
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