Moshi, TZ – Kahe Primary School Students enjoy seasonal banana harvests – 15 July 2020

Bananas have been an important fixture in the school breakfast serving program. Recently, Kahe school students have been enjoying them in their regular breakfast serving.

While Kahe waits for their corn harvest to dry, they are enjoying the seasonal harvests of plentiful banana bunches that surround their school gardens. Serving bananas over corn extends the sustainability of the breakfast serving program and adds variety to the students’ diet.

Around the time the rains arrive, banana bunches are plentiful. Bananas provide a lot of dietary requirements for students and keep them full throughout the day so they can focus on school. Usually, the unripe bananas are boiled and served along with the beans. Truthfully, unripe bananas are one of the Better Lives’ Partner Coordinator’s favorite meals.

While these bunches of bananas are by far cheaper and more nutritious than corn, a bunch of bananas can only produce once a year, and often they are not readily available all year round. Deo reports that 8 bunches of bananas can feed the entire school which means the school would need space and time to plant 1,560 bananas to be entirely reliant on bananas.

Kahe continues to enjoy their delicious bananas and hope to find some alternative staple crops to exchange with corn periodically.