More general information on our nutrition program is available here. This page is meant to show how we transited to socially distanced nutrition program feedings in response to the Rivers State Government’s decision to close all schools on March 23, 2020 to combat the spread of COVID 19. Our nutrition program is designed to feed the children weekly, typically on Fridays. We did not want to stop feeding them, especially since the COVID 19 shut-down is likely to greatly increase food insecurity and childhood malnutrition in Rivers State. We met with the parents who all agreed they wanted their children to continue being fed. Since the rest of the school is closed, we now no longer have to pack the kids into one large room so the other rooms can be used for classes. Instead, we are now spreading them across multiple different classrooms so we can maintain social distancing while feeding them. Nick Kristof correctly noted in a New York Times column that “school feeding programs have often been shut down along with schools.” He is correct, but we are not shutting down. We are pressing forward with socially distanced nutrition program feedings as shown below. To borrow from Dr. Nabie Nubari Francis, our nutrition program coordinator, “No retreat. No surrender. COVID 19 or not our pupils must be fed.”