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Lilia Bliznashka

Lily Bliznashka is a Research Fellow in the Nutrition, Diets, and Health Unit. Her research focuses on assessing the effectiveness of multi-input nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific interventions and the mechanisms through which they work to improve maternal and child health and nutrition globally. She has worked in Burkina Faso, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda.

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School meals and school-based actions for people and the planet: Nourishing bodies, minds, and futures

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School children in uniforms running and holding bowls

Children at Idugumbi Primary School going for lunch. Idugumbi Primary School benefitted from a school feeding program through a collaboration with the Kuyenda Collective youth. Kuyenda Collective is a youth collective working to improve rural youth’ right to education. In 2023, Joshua played a key role from the village he comes, Mtembela in Mbeya District in Tanzania, where he led a transformative journey for children in Idugumbi Primary School to get meals while in school. The parents and the community pull their resources together to aide the feeding program. GPE’s fund for civil society, Education Out Loud managed by Oxfam Denmark, is supporting youth collectives to transform education in their communities. GPE/Translieu/Mrutu
Making a Difference – School Meals


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