The Delegate of the Government, Sabrina Moh, has valued the opening of new school canteens, 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.
During the start of the school year, Moh recalled that public education is “a fundamental tool not only to improve society, but also to ensure equal opportunities.” In this regard, he has stressed that the implementation of the school canteen of the CEIP Encarna León, with capacity for 300 students, represents a further step on this path.
“Our goal is to improve education and especially public education in our city as a tool for equal opportunities. And in this equality of opportunities we have to value the implementation of the dining room of the Encarna León, which is added to that of Reina Sofía and León Solá, and which will be added to other educational centers. It is one of the great challenges we are going to continue working on,” he said.
Expanding Network
For her part, the Provincial Director of Education, Elena Fernández Treviño, has highlighted that this course marks a new impulse to the network of school canteens in Melilla.
“The Encarna León is planned for the first time, but we already have other school canteens that have been in operation for years and that have kitchen in both Reina Sofía and León Solá. In addition, we have the Day Center that supplies a catering program to this same center and the CEIP Hippodrome, with a renewed agreement with the Ministry of Social Welfare that incorporates the new recommendations of healthy eating approved in April 2025 by the Government of Spain,” he said.
Fernández Treviño has assured that the objective 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.
In the words of the Provincial Director, “these children have a guaranteed healthy diet, with five balanced meals a week, with planning of vegetables, fruits and vegetables, and the elimination of juices. All of this is incorporated into the new school canteen agreements.” Finally, he valued this “great advance”, assuring that it is, above all, “a necessary advance”.