DAKAR/JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI: Twenty million more children in Sub-Saharan Africa are now receiving school meals through government-led programmes than in 2022, according to the latest edition of the State of School Feeding Worldwide, a flagship global biennial report released today by the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ).
Maseru¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a contribution of JPY 200 million (approximately US$1.36 million) from the Government of Japan to support the national school feeding programme in Lesotho. Over the next year, this funding will provide nutritious meals to 50,000 pre-primary learners across the country.
MASERU - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and Government of Lesotho have today launched an innovative geospatial platform that will boost evidence-based decision making on issues of national concern and enhance overall governance.
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has welcomed a US$ 1.7 Million contribution from the Government of Japan to support the provision of daily meals to some 50,000 pre-primary school learners in Early Childhood Care and Development Centres (ECCDs) countrywide and the training of 300 farmers in the Mohale¡¯s Hoek and Quthing regions of Lesotho over the next 12 months.
Maseru ¨C The Government of Germany, through the German Federal Foreign Office, has contributed EUR 1.5 million for the years 2021-2023 to the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in Lesotho to support highly vulnerable people struggling to meet their basic food needs amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. This is part of a EUR 18 million contribution by Germany to Southern Africa for 2021-2023.
MASERU- The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) today welcomed a JPY 200 million (US$ 1.8 Million) contribution by the Government of Japan to strengthen food assistance support to 50,000 pre-primary school children through the Government of Lesotho¡¯s national school feeding programme.
Maseru ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomed a contribution from the People¡¯s Republic of China that has helped Â鶹ÊÓƵ reach 36,000 vulnerable people with food and nutrition assistance
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the European Union¡¯s (EU) contribution of €2.8 million (M55.5 million) to provide much needed relief assistance to the most vulnerable people in Lesotho affected by three consecutive years of drought and the socio-economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
MASERU- The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the Japanese Government contribution of JPY 250 Million (equivalent to about US$ 2.3 Million) that will enable Â鶹ÊÓƵ to strengthen food assistance to some 94,000 primary school and 60,000 pre-primary school learners, through the Government of Lesotho¡¯s national school feeding programme.
MASERU ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes the European Union (EU) contribution of €1.5 million (equivalent to about M24 million) in humanitarian support, enabling Â鶹ÊÓƵ to expand ongoing emergency drought assistance to an additional 22,100 people on top of the 77,880 people that are already receiving assistance.
BEIJING - The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Government of China have recently signed agreements to provide food assistance to Yemen, Lesotho, Dominican Republic, and the Republic of Congo to respond to their food needs outlined in recent Humanitarian Response Plans.
JOHANNESBURG/LONDON ¨C A record 45 million people - mostly women and children - in the 16-nation Southern African Development Community are gravely food insecure following repeated drought, widespread flooding and economic disarray. As the crisis deepens, the world must step up now to save lives and enable communities to adapt to climate change, the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has warned.
Johannesburg ¨C A record 45 million people across the 16-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) will be severely food insecure in the next six months, United Nations food agencies have warned.
