AFGHANISTAN: Attacks hit WFP school feeding programme in south
CHAGHCHARAN, 30 July 2008 (IRIN): The UN World Food Programme (WFPs) food-for-education programme has been adversely affected by recent attacks on aid convoys:
The result: Some 300.000 primary school children, mostly in southern provinces, have not received vegetable oil and fortified biscuits over the past four months.
The aim of the food-for-education programme is to promote education and ensure childrens – particularly girls – access to formal schooling.
WFP has been distributing 4,5 kg of cooking oil (madolie) to 450.000 girls every month; and a snack of fortified biscuits to about 1,5 million schoolchildren in food-insecure areas every day.
The education department in Ghor Province, central Afghanistan, said that of the 150.000 students in the province 80.000 were entitled to benefit from the school feeding programme, but no aid had been delivered since March 2008, the beginning of the academic year.
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