Holiday meal for needy students extended to all schools – Society

All public schools will provide meals during the Christmas and Easter holidays to students benefiting from social action of the next school year, according to a dispatch published Tuesday in Diário da República

inserted in a strengthening of social action school, will extend "significantly the universe of students covered," says the Ministry of Education, recalling that up to now, these meals n & # 39; 39 were given only in integrated schools of the Educational Territories of Priority Intervention.

The order published Tuesday aims to "implement the measures of social action school planned in the state budget for 2018" and represent "a reinforcement of the fight against social inequalities . "

According to the decree, next year will also be distributed fruit to all students of preschool education in public education, and this level of education and the 1.

The government's decree also states that the cost of social support for study visits will be paid to schools according to the visiting plan presented.

This measure aims to respond to "suggestions and requests from schools and aims to cease to represent" a limitation to the effective participation of students benefiting from the "School Social Action" in these visits.