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Pandemic derails historic advances in children’s access to school meals
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New report finds school closures led to 370 million schoolchildren losing their one reliable daily meal Share
The COVID-19 pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, according to a new World Food Programme (WFP) report.
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School Meals: WFP Pushes for Global Action to Reach 461 Million School children
This, will however, depend on steady flow of funds to the agency.
Before the devastating strike of the COVID-19 pandemic, 388 million schoolchildren, which represent one in two children globally, were receiving school meals. This is the highest number in history, according to the
State of School Feeding Worldwide report.
Even at that, millions of other vulnerable schoolchildren were not reached before COVID-19 because of funding challenges. Disturbingly, the pandemic risks reversing a decade of hard-won gains in global efforts to provide nutritious food to the world’s most vulnerable children through a free daily meal in school, WFP says in the report released Wednesday.
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Press Release – UN News Hard-won gains in efforts to provide millions of the worlds most vulnerable children with nutritious food, through free daily meals at school, are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, a UN World Food Programme (WFP) report said …
Hard-won gains in efforts to provide millions of the world’s most vulnerable children with nutritious food, through free daily meals at school, are at risk due to the coronavirus pandemic and its fallout, a UN World Food Programme (WFP) report said on Wednesday.
According to WFP’s report, State of School Feeding Worldwide, 370 million children in 199 countries and territories were suddenly deprived of school meals, when schools closed due to the pandemic. That meal was for many their only nutritious food of the day.