UN REPORT HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS OF SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMMES IN CRISIS SETTINGS

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UN REPORT HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS OF SCHOOL MEAL PROGRAMMES IN CRISIS
SETTINGSNew York, May 24 2013 1:00PMA United Nations report released
today stresses the importance of providing meals for schoolchildren,
particularly in times of crisis, and notes that this is still lacking
in many developing countries.

"School feeding assures that where quality education is available,
children are able to take advantage of the opportunity to learn,"
<"http://www.wfp.org/stories/school-meals-where-need-greatest-coverage-lowest">said
the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Ertharin
Cousin.

"It's an investment that pays off in the future with better-educated,
stronger and healthier adults and it's also a critical safety net to
prevent the most vulnerable from suffering in times of crisis," she
said.

The <i><"http://www.wfp.org/content/state-school-feeding-worldwide-2013">State
of School Feeding Worldwide</i> report, produced by WFP, provides a
global analysis of school feeding programmes in developed and
developing nations, as well as data on how governments use school
meals as a safety net in times of crisis.

According to WFP, around 368 million children – about one in five –
get a meal at school every day in 169 developing and developed
countries. However, despite the global nature of school feeding, the
coverage of these programmes is lowest where they are most needed. In
low-income countries, only 18 per cent receive a daily meal at school,
compared to nearly 49 per cent of children in middle-income countries.

Global investment in these programmes is about $75 billion, with most
coming from government budgets. While these may seem like a large
investment, the benefits are even greater as the report states that
for every $1 spent by government and donors at least $3 is gained in
economic returns.

Over the past five years, at least 38 countries have scaled up their
school feeding programmes in response to a crisis, whether related to
food prices, conflict, natural disaster or financial volatility.

"During the food and fuel crises in 2008 many Governments struggled to
protect the most vulnerable from hunger and looked to school meals to
achieve that. In the current recession, even wealthy nations are
examining how school meals can prevent families sliding deeper into
poverty and hunger," said the report's lead author Carmen Burbano.

WFP has been operating school meals programmes in developing countries
for almost 50 years. In 2012, the agency provided meals or nutritious
snacks in school for 24.7 million children in 63 countries, including
take-home rations for 1.3 million girls and 500,000 boys – providing
an incentive for poor families to keep their children in class, rather
than pull them out to work in the fields, in factories or in the home.

The report is being presented today at the largest annual meeting of
school feeding experts, co-hosted by the Global Child Nutrition
Foundation and WFP's Centre of Excellence Against Hunger in Brazil.May
24 2013 1:00PM
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