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In low-income countries, 10% of children benefit from school feeding programs, compared to 27% in lower middle-income countries, 30% in upper middle-income countries, and 47% in high-income countries. [3] Although school feeding programs are widespread, they can differ significantly in their design, implementation, and evaluation.
School-based feeding programs are widely used in Latin America to improve access to education, and at least 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region have some large-scale school feeding activity. Altogether, 55% of school-age children (and 88% of primary school-age children) in the region benefit from school meal programs.
Mary's Meals is a global movement which sets up school feeding programmes in communities where poverty and hunger prevent children from gaining an education. Mary's Meals provides daily meals in school for more than one million children in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe.
It is the world's largest humanitarian organization [2] [3] and the leading provider of school meals. [4] Founded in 1961, WFP is headquartered in Rome and has offices in 87 countries. [ 5 ] In 2023 it supported over 152 million people, [ 6 ] and it is present in more than 120 countries and territories.
Feeding South Florida is a member organization of the Feeding America network. It services Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade and Monroe counties, more than 25 percent of the state’s food insecure ...
Food For The Poor, Inc. (FFP) is an ecumenical Christian nonprofit organization based in Coconut Creek, Florida, United States that provides food, medicine, and shelter, among other services, to the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean.
WFP now provides meals to an average of 20 million children in school - almost half of whom are girls. Within the past four decades, 28 countries have graduated from WFP school feeding programmes, and most are now providing school feeding on their own. WFP school meals are a major incentive for poor families to send their children to school.
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