School meals, which fight child hunger and boost education, may soon begin to vanish in Sudan. Huge funding shortfalls for the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is threatening all its operations in Sudan, including school feeding.
For 2010, WFP is planning to reach 1.5 million children in Sudan with school meals. However, Marian Yun of WFP told me, "the Sudan operation is facing major shortfalls that might prohibit this expansion as planned. We are in the process of re-prioritizing what we can do given the funding we have so far received, which is sufficient to take us through until August when we run out of food and resources."
I asked about receiving funding from the U.S. McGovern-Dole Global School Lunch Program. Yun explained that "Sudan isn't eligible for McGovern Dole"....and is "no longer eligible for USAID/Food for PeaceTitle II funding (new development as of 2010) which makes the expansion rather ambitious."
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