A student’s lunch at Institution Al Mansour/Photo by Corrine Schmaedeke
RABAT, Morocco — Every night, Fouzia Nader buys ingredients for two recipes, manages two sets of pans and dances around the kitchen, perfectly timing every simmering skillet and marinating meat.
After serving dinner, she splits the remaining food into thirds for lunch the next day, packing one portion into a blue superhero lunchbox for 7-year-old son Abdessamad Nader and another in a purple sparkly lunchbox for 4-year-old daughter Malak Nader. The third portion is wrapped in cellophane before the children’s mother runs her last errand of the day, slipping into the night to deliver the meal to a child who would otherwise go hungry come lunchtime tomorrow in Rabat’s old medina.