DUSHANBE- The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of US$ 2 million from the Russian Federation in support of the school feeding programme in Tajikistan.
CARACAS ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is expanding its school meals programme in Venezuela to reach more than 110,000 students and school staff in the northwest of the country, building on a pilot programme that started in July 2021 in the state of Falc¨®n.
LILONGWE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a contribution of NOK 13.4 million (USD 1.5 million) from the Government of Norway to support the provision of locally produced school meals for 50,000 primary school learners in Malawi. This forms part of a larger contribution of NOK 50 million (around USD 5.5 million) to locally produced school meals programmes in three countries - Ethiopia, Malawi and Niger.
SEOUL ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) welcomes a US$ 2 million contribution from the Republic of Korea towards its school feeding operations in three African countries - Guinea, Rwanda, and Benin. This will help ensure that school aged children have access to school meals, as well as support governments to scale up and improve the quality of their national school feeding programmes
VIENTIANE ¨C U.S. Ambassador Dr. Peter M. Haymond handed over 93 containers of fortified rice, lentils, canned fish and fortified cooking oil to Deputy Minister of Education and Sports Dr. Sisouk Vongvichith at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ¡¯s (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) warehouse in Vientiane today. The food will be used to prepare healthy school lunches for 63,000 school children around Lao PDR.
YEREVAN ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) hands over to the Government of the Republic of Armenia the management of its school feeding programme in Gegharkunik and Lori provinces. Â鶹ÊÓƵ has been implementing school feeding in Armenia since 2012, providing over 100,000 schoolchildren with hot and nutritious meals every day.
WINDHOEK-The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) in partnership with the Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture recently launched its Home-Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSFP) at Otjimuhaka Primary School, Kunene Region. The programme, amounting to US$ 120,000, equivalent to N$ 1.79 million, is funded by Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
NEW YORK ¨C United Nations agencies have announced their strong support for an international coalition aiming to rapidly improve the nutrition, health and education of school-age children around the world following pandemic-driven school closures.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan handed over 1,485 tons of fortified wheat flour and around 61 tons of vegetable oil to the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan during a ceremony this week. The food will cover the needs of the national School Feeding Programme in the Districts of the Republican Subordination (DRS), Khatlon Region, and the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO).
Algiers ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has warmly welcomed a contribution of € 400,000 (US$ 478,000) from the government of France (EU) to support Sahrawi refugee children in Algeria. This is the second year that France has made this substantial donation.
Accra ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has provided the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) with tablets to digitize the monitoring of the school feeding programme. The initiative aims to reinforce programme efficiency and implementation by enabling real-time tracking of daily attendance and feeding in 260 pilot schools in all 16 regions of the country.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the local authorities of Sughd Region inaugurated a bakery in the town of Isfara today. This is the sixth such bakeries that Â鶹ÊÓƵ has renovated and built in the region with funding from the Russian Federation.
New Delhi/Bhubaneshwar: The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Department of School and Mass Education, Government of Odisha, have launched a training app aimed at thousands of Cook-cum-Helpers who play a critical role in preparing and providing hot-cooked meals to millions of school children under India¡¯s Mid-day Meal scheme.
COLOMBO ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is supporting the Government of Sri Lanka with food items and funding to provide school children with take-home rations in lieu of in-school meals.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Ministry of Education and Science of Tajikistan signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) today for the development of a sustainable National School Feeding Programme.
CARACAS ¨C ?The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) started its school meals programme in Venezuela this week, with the first distributions of take-home food rations to children enrolled in 277 pre-primary schools and to their schools¡¯ staff in all municipalities in the state of Falc¨®n.
CARACAS¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has moved its first food supplies to its logistics hub in Maracaibo, Venezuela, as it prepares to launch its school meals programme for vulnerable school children and school employees in the country.
BAGHDAD ¨C The Ministry of Education of Iraq (MoE) and the United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have agreed to broaden access to school feeding for 3.6 million school children across the country. So far this year, 264,000 of the most vulnerable children have been provided with school meals and support in 11 districts. Partners plan to expand the programme over the next four years to provide better opportunities to all children in need, to stay in school and support their learning and futures.
BEIRUT ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) received a generous €1 million contribution from the Italian Cooperation in support of its school meals program. As schools remain closed in Lebanon, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is providing monthly assistance in the form of food parcels for nearly 133,000 vulnerable people.
PANAMA CITY¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has reached an agreement to commence operations in Venezuela with the priority of serving the most vulnerable children.
(ROME/PARIS) -- The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) have renewed their partnership aimed at strengthening health and nutrition programmes for school children and will unite their expertise so that children and young people can learn, grow, and contribute to the future of their countries.
DUSHANBE ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) and the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tajikistan today inaugurated a bakery in Pani district, the eighth such bakery Â鶹ÊÓƵ has helped build with funding from Russia. A steady supply of bread made in these bakeries will be used in school meals for 11,000 primary schoolchildren across 300 schools in the country, helping to make sure that children are healthy, ready to learn, and stay in school.
MONROVIA ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) is providing take-home rations to pre-primary and primary school children and their household members, totalling 5,000 beneficiaries. The rations comprising of rice, fortified vegetable oil, and pulses are intended to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the students and their families. This assistance was made possible thanks to a contribution of 200,000 CAD (US$ 150,000) by the Government of Canada to Â鶹ÊÓƵ in Liberia.
ROME ¨C The United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has announced the Finnish Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Ville Skinnari, as the founding member of a high-level steering committee to support a global scale up of school meal programmes.
This is a summary of what was said by Â鶹ÊÓƵ spokesperson Tomson Phiri ¨C to whom quoted text may be attributed ¨C at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
GENEVA ¨CThe United Nations Â鶹ÊÓƵ (Â鶹ÊÓƵ) has begun to convene a coalition of stakeholders to support governments to restore and boost access to school feeding for the most vulnerable children.
