📊 School Meal Quality: Challenges and Solutions
Ensuring quality school meals in Kazakhstan remains a pressing issue. Despite a significant increase in state spending on school lunches (from 78.3 billion tenge in 2017 to 196.6 billion tenge in 2023), many students refuse free meals. This leads to inefficient use of food, which often ends up being wasted.
📈 Key Data:
• In Almaty, spending on school meals increased fourfold, reaching 41 billion tenge.
• In Almaty Region, spending tripled to 15.5 billion tenge.
• In East Kazakhstan Region, spending has remained almost unchanged due to low birth rates and population migration.
💡 Proposed Improvements:
1. Indexing meal costs to align with inflation levels.
2. Introducing a lunchbox distribution system in schools without canteens.
3. Conducting taste tests for parents and children to improve menus.
4. Piloting a buffet system in select schools.
👉 Read independent expert Yerlan Karimov’s insights on the website economyKZ.org!
https://economykz.org/?p=10891&lang=en
Ensuring quality school meals in Kazakhstan remains a pressing issue. Despite a significant increase in state spending on school lunches (from 78.3 billion tenge in 2017 to 196.6 billion tenge in 2023), many students refuse free meals. This leads to inefficient use of food, which often ends up being wasted.
📈 Key Data:
• In Almaty, spending on school meals increased fourfold, reaching 41 billion tenge.
• In Almaty Region, spending tripled to 15.5 billion tenge.
• In East Kazakhstan Region, spending has remained almost unchanged due to low birth rates and population migration.
💡 Proposed Improvements:
1. Indexing meal costs to align with inflation levels.
2. Introducing a lunchbox distribution system in schools without canteens.
3. Conducting taste tests for parents and children to improve menus.
4. Piloting a buffet system in select schools.
👉 Read independent expert Yerlan Karimov’s insights on the website economyKZ.org!
https://economykz.org/?p=10891&lang=en