A full stomach can mean the difference between completing an education and dropping out. In the poorest districts of Lao PDR, WFP assists more than 152,000 primary school aged children by providing healthy mid-morning meals everyday. Daily nutritious meals in school not only help the children concentrate better in class, it also motivates them to attend school everyday. Click here for more on how they prepare WFP school meals in Lao PDR.
Hungr in the News
Women on the Front Lines of Hunger —International Herald Tribune
A woman aid worker emphasizes that the government and the international community need to work together to contain the threat of food insecurity.
Busan- An Explainer —The Guardian
Hillary Clinton, Ban Ki-moon, and the UK’s Andrew Mitchell are among the cast of thousands expected to gather in Busan, South Korea next week for the fourth high-level forum on aid effectiveness.
WFP Outlines Plan to Fight Under-Nutrition in Laos —Vientiane Times
Nutrition is at the heart of the new country program for Laos approved by the Executive Board of WFP during its Second Regular Session from November 14 to 17. The WFP is working to help Laos become free from malnutrition and its debilitating impact on human potential and national development.
This is what a sustainable hunger solution looks like.
It’s a before and after picture of what is now a rice paddy in Laos setup under a WFP “cash for work” programme. The scheme provided farmers in Oudamxay province with money to buy food while they worked to plant new rice paddies and vegetable gardens.
That took about two months of very hard labor which they would not have had time to perform without the money they received from WFP to feed their families.
Now, they have an added source of both income and food, which will continue to pay nutritional dividends in the years to come.
Copyright: WFP/Khamphay Onechaleunsou
