THE SCHOOL MEALS PROGRAM AND PROMOTION OF THE RIGHT TO FOOD IN THE SCENARIO OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the trajectory of different school lunch programs, as well as their importance in promoting the right to food, especially in the Brazilian pandemic context. Many students – children, teenagers and adults – have only been able to eat properly through the meals offered in public schools and colleges in the country. In this sense, many students attend school aiming only at meals and ignoring learning, as they are not aware of the importance of this last one. However, there are times when some schools cannot provide a full meal, which leaves students in hunger. In this way, on vacation, the majority of them suffered from starvation at home, as the family have not been unable to buy food. Therefore, it is necessary that public authorities pay more attention to school lunch programs, as well as to their budget, in order to make schools a healthy and welcoming environment. The methodology of this paper was based on the use of historiographical and deductive scientific methods. As research techniques, bibliographic and documental research was applied.