thailand | Management of lunch program for primary schooling and pre-schooling students

The Constitution of the Kingdom of Thailand stipulates that the State shall ensure that every child receives quality education for twelve years from pre-school to the completion of compulsory education free of charge. The State shall ensure that young children receive care and development prior to education to develop their physical body, mind, discipline, emotion, society and intelligence in accordance with their age, by also promoting and supporting local administrative organizations and the private sector to participate in such undertaking.

To ensure that every child receives quality education for twelve years includes the provision of sufficient necessities to support an education accomplishment; in particular, the management in providing lunch during academic year in accordance with above constitutional provision.

There currently are about 884,670 students – out of 3,831,367 students or about 23.08% – in the lunch program, nationwide, who still have malnutrition (March, 2020). Plus, there are facts periodically presented on medias that the operation of school lunch program is still under appropriate level of efficiency.

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Source: Office of the Ombudsman, Thailand