New York: New York City administration organized a virtual conference to explore possibilities to ensure access to halal food for the Muslim students at the city’s public schools.
New York City Public Schools Senior Executive Director Office of Food and Nutrition Services and Office of Ethnic and Community Media Executive Director Jose Bayona hosted the conference to discuss access to halal food in New York City Public Schools.
Welcoming the conference participants, Jose Bayona said the event is aimed at discussing the possibilities about access to halal food in public schools and we want people from all communities to express their views on this issue.
Chris Tricarico, executive director of the Food and Nutrition Office, who participated in the conference, said that the effort we started in 2018 is successful today and we currently have 88 schools that have been certified, and all these schools have a halal menu that is served to the children.
On this occasion, the participants of the conference also asked questions, while giving answers, Executive Director Chris Trecarico said that we are seriously considering the requests of students regarding halal food and we must ensure that we provide halal food to Muslim students in schools.
Chris said that we have some schools that are still in the process of certification.
