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Global Food for Education Program
Local Economies Stimulated
The influx of resources supporting and flowing from GFE projects stimulated national and local economies in all participating countries. Thousands of new jobs were created as a result of the construction, repair, and maintenance of food storage and preparation facilities at feeding sites, as well as the offloading, delivery, storage, and processing of the commodities. Because of the overall stimulus to local economies, as well as the breadth of skills and work experience, many of these new jobs were expected to be sustained after the completion of the GFE projects, according to reports from the PVOs.
In Vietnam, more than 1,000 new jobs were created in ports, processing facilities, construction, and distribution.
In the port city of Ploce, Croatia, the arrival of commodity shipments for Bosnia and Herzegovina constituted 20 percent of the annual business for the port’s several hundred employees.
There were 320 new jobs created by the Mercy USA project in Albania, 75 jobs in Lebanon, and 67 jobs in Moldova, and the number was still growing at last count.
CRS funded microcredit programs, supporting small businesses in Honduras and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In an area of high unemployment in Albania, the purchase of locally produced foods for the CARE project generated paid employment in food processing and additional income for local farmers and bakers.
A pasta factory in Moldova added 67 new employees as a result of the business brought to the company through involvement in the GFE project.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the CRS project contracted with 16 bakeries to make the meals. The bakeries hired more employees and in some cases expanded their product lines. The economic ripple effect also benefited companies that provided wrapper paper for the five million sandwiches, as well as meat and cheese producers and processors.
In Nicaragua, the bakery that manufactured nutritious cookies for the PCI-administered GFE project hired 17 people to make and package the cookies. The small factory producing the fortified drink mix hired 15 more people to manufacture and ship the product.
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