Teachers at Arau school kick off breakfast initiative for hungry students

SMK Arau principal Normah Md Noh (left) looks on as some students toast bread at the Coffee Corner on the first day of the SPM 2022 examinations. - Photo: Bernama

ARAU: "Teacher, I am hungry... I want bread," were the words of a student that prompted SMK Arau guidance counsellor Effa Khairunisah Othman and other teachers to moot an initiative to provide bread daily to less fortunate school kids, the children of fishermen, before they begin classes.

Effa Khairunisah said initially she and the other teachers prepared bread and jam, and also provided a toaster in the counselling room so that they can give a meal to any student who was hungry and not able to buy food.