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WFP scales down school-feeding programme

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    The World Food Programme (WFP) has had to cut back on the number of children on a school-feeding programme it runs in Liberia because of insufficient funding.

    Only 20 percent of the resources the WFP needs to implement its Protracted Relief and Rehabilitation Programme - which also covers Benin, Ghana, Guinea and Sierra Leone - has been provided by donors, according to the WFP’s Liberia office.

    The programme has been going on in Liberia since 1990, except for 1996, when the civil war intensified. In 1998-1999, it provided meals for 510,000 children in 1,734 schools in Liberia, while around 30,000 teachers received food for work. In 1999-2000, however, the number of beneficiaries has been cut to 240,000 children and 12,500 teachers in 956 schools.

    The Liberian component of the regional programme is estimated at US $15 million, WFP-Liberia said.

    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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