This school program proudly sponsored by Nescafe
Brazil’s coffee industry has brewed up a plan to serve up to 1 million schoolchildren a free breakfast — complete with a cup of coffee.
Yahoo reports that Brazil’s Coffee Industry Association (Abic) is seeking the support of 50 roasters to launch a pilot “Adopt-a-School” programme to feed breakfast to 1 million Brazilian school children aged 6 to 18.
Under the plan, a coffee roaster would adopt a school of at least 500 children and provide them with a free breakfast of coffee, milk and bread. The annual cost of the programme for each school is estimated at 33,500 reais (9,000 pounds).
“Kids have soft drinks at school. … Why not coffee instead to make them alert and attentive?” Professor Darcy Lima, project scientific adviser, told the association’s annual conference in northeast Brazil. The conference ends on Sunday.
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