Last year I interviewed Ismail Omer of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Ghana. He discussed the hopes and goals of the school feeding program to fight child hunger and poverty. One of these goals was to reach 100,000 children with WFP school meals as part of a national effort led by the government. This has been accomplished.
The news gets even better when you consider one of the byproducts of the school feeding aside from helping children gain nutrition and education. This positive side effect is the purchase of food from farmers in Ghana to supply the school meals. WFP announced today “it has purchased 1,433 metric tons of Ghanaian rice, worth US$780,000.”
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