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WFP starts school meals programme in poor rural areas

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    The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has signed a five-year deal worth about US $17 million to provide school meals for more than 88,000 children in poor rural areas of Mali.

    The agreement, signed on Wednesday, provides for WFP to supply and deliver 29,485 tonnes of food, cooking utensils and de-worming tablets to schools in poor rural areas across the country where food at home is often scarce.

    In most of the schools affected, the children will receive one meal a day, but the programme provides for 10,000 children from nomad communities to receive two.

    WFP launched its first school feeding programme in Mali in 1998.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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