Jamie Oliver has revealed he plans to spend millions his own money on a 10-year plan to improve food education and meals in UK primary schools. Oliver said he felt drawn to act after learning that the UK was "the most unhealthy country in Europe" which had "the first generation of kids expected to live a shorter life than their parents"."Probably what I am going to do over the next 10 to 15 years is literally have a percentage of profits from every single company that I have which hives cash down," Jamie told the BBC. "If, in terms of parents and teachers, they can put all their ducks in a row then literally hundreds of thousands of pounds will be spent on that school. It will build gardens, build school kitchens, give them seeds and fruit trees as well as teaching collateral including web sites, DVDs and conferences." Mentors provided by Oliver would help to provide full food education support, he said.
Jamie revealed he plans to introduce the scheme to "20 to 40 schools a year, building to between 80 and 100". To reach his target of 1,000 (5% of the country's 20,000) primary schools over 10 years. "It only takes 2% to change anything," he added. "We'll use that private, entrepreneurial, idea - that is obsessed by relevance and making a true, real tangible change to children and their parents - to then come up with a model. And we'll say to government, 'now I've proved it - let's do it'. It'll work, just give me 10 years."
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