The dining room of the Children’s and Primary Education Center (CEIP) ‘Encarna León’ has been launched for the first time on the 10th of this month with a healthy and sustainable diet.
The Government Delegate, Sabrina Moh, and the Provincial Director of the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD), Elena Fernández Treviño, have traveled to the educational center to learn first-hand how the dining room is functioning and the impressions of the center’s management and of the students about it.
Currently there are 134 students, scholarships, who are making use of the dining room, but, in short, this service will be open to all students who want to make use of it.
The head of the Government Delegation has valued the opening of this new school canteen, a resource that she considers essential to move towards a more equitable education and with greater guarantees of equal opportunities for all children in Melilla.
Moh has made it clear that this dining room complies with Royal Decree 315/2025, on food security and nutrition, for the promotion of a healthy and sustainable diet in schools, so, “these children have a guaranteed healthy diet, with five balanced meals a week, with planning of vegetables, fruits and vegetables.”
Family and labour conciliation
Thus the ‘Encarna León’ joins the school canteens of the CEE ‘Reina Sofía’ – where all the students who request it are scholarship recipients – and the CEIP ‘León Solá’, which have already been in operation for two years, as well as the CEIP Hippodrome, which is supplied with a program of catheterin the Day Center.
In any case, the objective of the Spanish Government is clear: “continue to increase school canteens to reach the total of 14 Primary and Infant Centres in Melilla”. A measure that, as he has defended, not only facilitates family and work reconciliation, but also guarantees a healthy diet.