India’s Midday Meal program feeds 120 million poor and malnourished children. Despite rampant...
Mathilde Dratwa discusses what attracted her to Rhitu Chatterjee's reporting on India's groundbreaking school lunch program.
She also describes the challenges of honoring nuanced reporting in short animated films.
Dratwa collaborated with animator Lisa LaBracio to create a unique aesthetic for this piece, establishing a colorful and patterned world by using Indian fabrics to populate an abstract landscape that is firmly Indian without necessarily pointing to a particular region of the country.
![Media file: foodprogram_wide-18d3f1aa1992d22fa524ccee25fb7610a1f6bb39-s700-c85.jpg](/sites/default/files/07-14-15/foodprogram_wide-18d3f1aa1992d22fa524ccee25fb7610a1f6bb39-s700-c85.jpg "In some Indian states, efforts to serve eggs to malnourished children are a political minefield. Image by Lisa LaBracio for the animation "Power Lunch: India's Mid-Day Meal Program."")
