Programa Municipal de Alimentação Escolar de Tocantinópolis (PMAE): trajetórias, perspectivas e desafios

Abstract

The research entitled Tocantinópolis Municipal School Food Program (PMAE): Trajectories, Perspectives and Challenges, aimed to investigate the decentralization process of the PNAE through the Municipal School Feeding Program (PMAE) of Tocantinópolis / TO and if it contributes to ensure a better operationalization of school feeding in said municipality. The methodology used in the study was qualitative, with the case study as a methodological strategy. Questionnaires and interviews were applied with the Secretary of Education, the PMAE Coordinator and a lunch box at a school in the city. To base the research we used theorists who dealt with the subject, analyzed documents about the program so that we could understand its execution. From the data obtained in the research we found that the PMAE contributes to the autonomy of the municipality with regard to the resources that come to choose the food, since it is extremely important that these are according to the reality of the students, since students well fed will certainly have more significant results. This work allowed us to conclude that, faced with the problem that we propose to investigate, we realize that the PMAE has many flaws that need to be remedied, considering that, as food is concerned, attention must be paid to the needs of those contemplated by this program, since education has as basic assumption the guarantee of rights and as such we emphasize the right to a quality school feeding and the program researched has as principle to ensure that this right is respected and guaranteed for the students served.