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WFP provides food

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    The World Food Programme (WFP) assisted 89,014 beneficiaries (51,136 female), with 415 mt of food during the month of March, the UN agency said on 20 April. This included assistance for 52,253 students, 36 percent of them girls, in 431 schools through a school-feeding project. WFP said it also started distributing kitchen utensils donated by UNICEF in schools in the east and south of the country. In the eastern region of Bafata, WFP did a nutritional screening of 60 pupils, of whom half were found moderately malnourished. A therapeutic feeding programme targeting 1,517 malnourished children is underway in seven centres in the east and south.

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