The World Food Program returned to Cape Verde 12 years later to fund a €1.6 million national school feeding program that the organization started in 1979 and calls one of the best in Africa.
“We are very proud of the example that Cape Verde sets, not only in the West African region, but, frankly, throughout the continent. A real national school feeding program that covers all children attending school and a school feeding program that is enshrined in national legislation. So it gives it sustainability and structure,” Christopher Nickoy, World Food Program (WFP) Regional Director for Central and West Africa, said in Praia this Friday.
This is an agreement with this United Nations agency, officially signed this Friday with the government of Cape Verde, under which WFP commits to provide food for 89,715 preschool, primary and secondary school students from 788 schools for six months through the national school canteen program. and during school holidays to alleviate the financial difficulties of the state in the face of the economic crisis caused by Covid-19 and inflation caused by the war in Ukraine.
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Source: CM Jornal
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