Breakfast is considered one of the most important meals of the day, however, there are many children miss their breakfast. Some parents/caretakers are busy earning for the living and have no time to prepare morning meals for the children while some kids living with their grandparents also face similar issue as the elderly are very old, not fully mobile, or have been ill. Their poor physical conditions don’t allow them to take full charge of childminding. In many families, parents or caretakers don’t understand the importance of breakfast so the kids either miss this important meal or take unhealthy breakfast.  Having breakfast helps boost the efficiency of study, work, memory, and emotion. Those without taking any morning meals would find themselves in less concentration during the day, plus the brain doesn’t seem to function well. For kids, missing breakfast regularly does affect their growth and intellect as they do not have sufficient nutrients for growing up. They normally have poor concentration which causes damages in schooling and everyday life in the long run.

Amnat Charoen Child Development Center and its associates from several local schools have been working hand in hand in promoting breakfast program in schools. The program does not only bring good health to the children, it also applies disciplinary and responsibility. Kids learn the good routine of clearing the table, washing dishes, putting away rubbish bins from the school kitchens, and cleaning up the canteen.

Moreover, the children learn to be grateful of the opportunity they receive from generous people who support the breakfast program. Hopefully, they grow up to be one of them, people who reach out, give, and love unconditionally.

Kids help wash the dishes after breakfast

Siriwan Tankaew
Regional Program Officer
7 June 2016