THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD

Published purpose

The project aims to improve the learning capacity of 1.1 million Haitian children by providing them with a hot meal every school day during the school year. The project supports the school feeding program to help schoolage children suffering from chronic hunger and an insufficient diet. The program distributes meals to schoolchildren, thus helping to increase attendance at the primary school level and improve children’s learning capacity. The project also aims to strengthen local agricultural production by promoting the purchase of as much as 25 percent of the required rice supply from local producers. The project also helps to strengthen and ensure the sustainability of the National School Feeding Program of Haiti’s Ministry of National Education.