Selection criteria

Before submitting your project, please check that you meet the following eligibility criteria:

Structure must have a not-for-profit designation, and of general interest in the fiscal meaning,
If not French, structures must have a French partner and/or one recommendation of a French Foundation,
Projects must provide a measurable and sustainable response to improving school meals for children,
All countries are eligible for a donation of the Bel Foundation, but a particular attention will be paid to countries in which the Bel Group operates.
Support asked from the Foundation could not fund the association running cost.

This year, the Bel corporate Foundation will study specifically projects addressing the following issues:

Sustainable supply for canteens: vegetable gardens, market gardening areas, collaborations with agricultural cooperatives, access to water etc.,
Nutrition: offering safe and diversified school meals,
Organization: involvement of communities in the daily management of the canteen,
Pedagogy: raising awareness among school children of good food practices, to make them actors in their diet.

Where would you like to connect?

Call for Projects: Sustainable School Canteens 2024