Hot Breakfast Program Helps Students

10 June 2014
VOA Khmer
Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Civil society / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Education and training / Government / International relations / Ministries and other national bodies / Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports / Social development / The poor / United States aid
Embassy of United States / En Komar Primary School / Gianpietro Bordignon / Hang Chuon Naron / Ministry of Education / Sem Non / United States aid / World Food Program

Tuesday morning, not long after dawn, a line of students formed outside En Komar Primary School, in Kampong Thom province. Students were waiting to receive breakfast from their teachers. The breakfasts are part of a World Food Program initiative that aims to feed 3.5 million students by 2016. So far, the program feeds about 150,000 primary school students, with help from a US grant of $20 million, in the provinces of Battambang, Kampong Thom and Siem Reap. …

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