Inter-American Development Bank 28d ago

A child who arrives at school hungry cannot learn. It sounds simple — and it is. Yet school feeding programmes remain one of the most underestimated investments a country can make in its own future. Donald Bundy, Professor of Epidemiology and Development at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, has spent more than three decades building the global evidence that school meals are not a welfare measure — they are a high-return investment in human capital. With over 400 publications and landmark reports for the World Bank, the World Food Programme, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bundy has shaped school health and nutrition policy across more than 77 countries. His work shows that when children are well-nourished at school, they attend more, learn better, and stay in the system longer — with multiplying effects on families, communities, and national economies. In this episode, Professor Bundy makes the case for why Suriname's investment in school feeding is not a line item to be weighed against other priorities — it is the foundation on which every other educational investment depends. #IDB #Improvinglives #IDBImpact+ #SchoolFeeding #HumanCapital #InvestingTodayTransformingTomorrow At the Inter-American Development Bank we work to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. http://www.iadb.org