
Futures of 370 Million Children in Jeopardy As School Closures Deprive Them of School Meals – UNICEF and WFP
Millions of kids could go hungry during the pandemic without school meals. WFP wants to help.

Millions of kids could go hungry during the pandemic without school meals. WFP wants to help.

WFP, UNICEF and the Honduran Government are helping teachers deliver food to out-of-school students on the remote Mosquito Coast – by bicycle.

As well as displaying global totals, the map shows how many children are affected in each country, with real-time data indicating both the scale of the challenges and the need for solutions.

As the coronavirus continues to spread, it is having dire consequences on the health and nutrition of school children and their families.

WFP is gearing up to ensure that children across the global still have access to school meals even while schools are closed due to Coronavirus.

What is “home grown” school feeding? It’s not only transforming the lives of students, but entire communities.

Standing in a doorway to the alley, Shrity brushes her teeth before sitting on the bed she shares with three other people. Here, she finishes her homework and eats a quick meal of rice and lentils before walking the littered streets to school.

Preliminary results of a Harvard University analysis show that globally, every dollar spent on a school meals program can bring returns of as much as $20.

What does it take to operate the world’s largest hunger relief effort? 75,000 shipping containers, 17,000 employees, 5,600 trucks, 92 aircraft and 20 ships. This is how we #endhunger.

The Mt. Lebanon famine killed 200,000 people between 1915 and 1918. The situation in Syria today looks eerily similar.