Libelle has been a preferred supplier for the Healthy Lunch in Schools programme from the very beginning in February 2020. The key thing they have learned from working with partnering schools is that there is no single, one-size-fits all solution. Every school is different and needs a carefully tailored solution.
The Libelle team of locals work from 8am until mid-afternoon creating nearly 900 lunches from supplies delivered from Palmerston North although area co-ordinator Jay Chard says they are looking for a local supplier. She is also looking for a business to recycle 4500 containers made of sugarcane fibre per week. They would make excellent planter boxes.
Principal of South School Stephen Snell says the programme has been working well so far at his school. Each child's lunch is supplied in a biodegradable container and everything left over is collected by the supplier to be processed sustainably.
South School Principal Snell says the whole programme has lots of advantages:
- • Every child has a healthy lunch
- • The amount of waste has diminished in the school substantially
- • There is always enough food with children absent meaning there is an option for seconds
- • Locals are employed supplying the service
- • The children enjoy the lunches
