Governor John Bel Edwards and First Lady Donna Edwards encourages schools to participate in the school breakfast challenge to help reduce childhood hunger. Donna Edwards says schools that take action and make sure kids eat breakfast can win up to one-thousand dollars in cash and other great prizes.
Edwards says research shows one in four children in Louisiana struggles with hunger. The First Lady knows as a former teacher that if children have a healthy start to their day, it will lead to better results in the classroom.
Schools can register online at Louisiana-school-breakfast-dot-org. Edwards says the Breakfast Challenge is part of the No Kid Hungry Louisiana Initiative. The First Lady says a pilot program started in Orleans Parish in 2010 and there has been a 60-percent increase in school breakfast participation rates.