Some schoolchildren in Mayo are not getting a breakfast [westernpeople.ie]
- Published: 02 November 2011
SOME students in Co Mayo would be going to school hungry were it not for the intervention of a Breakfast Club scheme, a meeting of Mayo VEC has been told.
During a presentation by the North and South Mayo School Completion co-ordinators, the committee heard that a Breakfast Club, set up in a number of schools to help keep students in school, is the only way to ensure that some children get a breakfast before school.
“There are children in Mayo who don’t get a breakfast,” said Sheila Feeney, North Mayo Co-ordinator for the project.
Westport-based councillor Christy Hyland was stunned by the revelation. “What are we coming to as a society when schools have to provide breakfasts for children in the morning. You mean kids are going to school hungry?” he asked.
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