Dulce - A student in Guatemala

Dulce María Díaz Pérez is 12 years old and loves to read. She also likes to garden. Dulce, a sixth-grade student in Tejutla, San Marcos, in the Western Highlands of Guatemala, is learning about sustainable farming, nutrition and more, through the backyard garden at her school.
Dulce’s school garden is part of a nationwide nutrition-sensitive school feeding initiative which links schools, local family farmers and parents associations to provide nutritious and varied meals to school children across the country. It follows the Sustainable Healthy Schools model from the Brazil-FAO International and South-South Cooperation Programme in the region and was first introduced in Guatemala in 2014.
These initiatives have been enhanced by Guatemala’s first-ever school-feeding law, which came into effect in 2018 following efforts made by the Guatemalan Chapter of the Parliamentary Front against Hunger and FAO. This achievement was the result of significant inter-sectorial and institutional coordination, consensus-building with key sectors, and evidence-based advocacy.
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