2 weeks of vegetables from the school garden for a child in Brazil

The school gardens are being built in the eastern part of São Paulo, where they are most needed. Hunger is a "pain", as people here call it. But people are ashamed to talk about hunger, because it indicates social inequality. The megacity of São Paulo paints a sad picture of this inequality: in the eastern part of the city, the human development index is much lower, at 0.48 to 0.70, than in other parts of the city, where it is high to very high, at 0.80 to 1.00 (GNESD, 2014). The city is characterized by slums, the so-called favelas. An estimated 23 percent of the city's population lives here (HABISP, 2011). In the Itaquera administrative district in the eastern part, for example, the median household income is the equivalent of around 350 euros (Rede Social, 2012). A household consists of an average of four people (GNESD, 2014). The lower the income, the greater the share that is spent on food and the less fresh fruit and vegetables are consumed. Malnutrition and malnutrition are the result. All-day schools are obliged to offer at least three meals. Primary and secondary schools are given 30 centavos, or 8 cents, per child and meal for this (CAISAN, 2016). For this amount, it is hardly possible for schools to offer more than beans and rice.