Himal Press 
KATHMANDU: China Foundation for Rural Development, in collaboration with the Global Cooperation for Development, organized a daylong seminar on ‘Child Nutrition Status in Community Schools of Nepal’ in Kathmandu on Tuesday.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister for Communications and Information Technology Rekha Sharma said the school lunch program has proved effective in Nepal. “One cannot learn properly if s/he is not healthy. Therefore, programs like these are very important,” she added. She thanked China Foundation for continuously supporting Nepali people, especially children, during the past seven years to improve their livelihood and promotion of their health and education.
Also speaking at the program, Chinese ambassador to Nepal, Cheng Song, congratulated the China Foundation for its rigorous efforts over the past seven years to support social welfare and development activities in Nepal. He also hailed the successful one-year accomplishment of the decent initiative of feeding needy Nepali children through the ‘Smiling Children School Feeding Program’ of the foundation.
Organized to mark the first anniversary of the ‘Smiling Children School Feeding Program’, the seminar saw the participation of school principals, teachers, students and mothers’ group members of the beneficiary schools.
Addressing the program, Zou Zhiqiang, Country Director of CFRD Nepal Office, said the foundation has been feeding more than 9,000 school children from 47 community schools across three districts of the country – Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Dang. “We will continue our support to uplift the livelihood of the Nepali community,” Zhou said. “We are hopeful of receiving the support and help of the Government of Nepal as well as Nepali and Chinese enterprises for our future works.”
