School Nutrition and Health Program

The School Feeding and Health Program of the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of El Salvador aims to improve learning conditions through school feeding, health, and nutrition. Initiated in 1984, it evolved from a welfare-based program into a rights-based social policy, integrating components of preventive health, nutrition, and food education. It is institutionalized under the Social Development and Protection Law and is part of the Universal Social Protection Subsystem. The program seeks to overcome poverty and social inequality by strengthening school attendance and promoting healthy habits among children and adolescents. Furthermore, it contributes to food and nutritional security and the sustainable educational development of the country.