Projects Implemented – Global
Food for Education
Private
Voluntary Organizations (PVO)
|
Country |
PVO |
Agreement Number & Date |
Donated U.S. Commodities |
Metric Tons |
Estimated |
Estimated |
|
Catholic Relief Services Extension |
GFE-182-2001/675-00 GFE-182-2002/1127-00 7/9/02 |
Total: Total: NFDM Rice Corn Oil Wheat Flour |
740 320 150 40 20 110 |
$1,182,990 $343,070 est. |
34,000 |
|
|
CARE Extension |
GFE-182-2001/834-00 GFE-182-2002/1126-00 9/13/02 |
Wheat Wheat |
18,500 18,500 |
$3,480,140 $2,479,000 est. |
14,454 |
|
|
Mercy-USA |
GFE-182-2002/987-00 |
Total: |
6,000 |
$1,412,966 |
30,000 |
|
|
|
Land O’Lakes Extension |
GFE-388-2002/963-00 GFE-388-2002/963-0A 9/6/02 |
Total: Total: NFDM Wheat |
34,950 24,400 500 23,900 |
$8,571,190 $4,207,600 est. |
350,000 |
|
Catholic Relief Services Extension |
GFE-680-2001/677-00 GFE-680-2002/1128-00 8/1/02 |
Total: Total: Rice Soybeans Vegetable Oil |
3,350 3,360 500 2,760 100 |
$692,153 $678,380 est. |
10,577 |
|
|
Project Concern International Extension |
GFE-511-2001/679-00 GFE-511-2002/1129-00 8/30/02 |
Total: Total: Corn CSB NFDM Vegetable Oil Wheat |
8,950 2,210 95 95 335 85 1,600 |
$4,301,571 $953,625 est. |
170,000 |
|
|
Bolivia |
Adventist Development and Relief Agency |
GFE-511-2002/981-00 6/20/02 |
Total: CSB NFDM SF Bulgur Wheat Flour |
1,560 110 260 110 1,080 |
$798,610 est. |
87,572 |
|
Catholic Relief Services Extension |
GFE-168-2001/676-00 GFE-168-2002/1130-00 7/24/02 |
HRW Wheat Wheat |
24,630 24,400 |
$3,135,892 $3,269,600 |
30,000 |
|
|
International Partnership for Human Development Extension |
GFE-679-2001/671-00 GFE-679-2002/1131-00 9/4/02 |
Total: Wheat Total: Oil Rice CS Meal |
18,300 10,000 9,000 2,500 5,500 1000 |
$4,544,474
$2,385,000 est. |
125,000 |
|
|
Mercy Corps Extension |
GFE-661-2001/647-00 GFE-661-2002/1132-00 9/6/02 |
Total: Corn Oil |
17,430 6,200 |
$7,794,248 $2,213,400 est. |
35,000 |
|
|
International Orthodox Christian Charities Extension |
GFE-114-2001/673-00 GFE-114-2002/1133-00 7/24/02 |
Wheat Total: Soybean Oil Wheat |
10,800 5,500 1,500 4,000 |
$1,498,392 $1,472,000 est. |
14,000 |
|
|
Georgia |
Counterpart International |
GFE-114-2002/989-00 4/25/02 |
Total: Bulgur Nonfat Dry Milk Soybean Oil Wheat |
26,600 1,000 100 500 25,000 |
$4,985,276 |
35,000 |
|
Catholic Relief Services Extension |
GFE-520-2002/958-00 GFE-520-2002/958-0A 8/26/02 |
Total: Total: Corn CSB Rice Vegetable Oil |
27,630 680 200 200 200 80 |
$2,827,514 $147,360 est. |
27,600 |
|
|
World Share |
GFE-520-2001/686-00 |
Total: |
21,020 |
$2,361,947 |
62,000 |
|
|
|
Catholic Relief Services Extension |
GFE-522-2002/982-00 GFE-522-2002/982-0A 9/13/02 |
Total: Total: CS Milk Vegetable Oil Wheat |
7,560 3,860 140 20 3,700 |
$1,100,250 $542,700 est. |
3,750 |
|
Mercy Corps Extension |
GFE-116-2001/662-00 GFE-116-2002/1134-00 8/23/02 |
Total: Total: Rice Vegetable Oil Wheat Flour |
7,790 680 180 100 400 |
$2,427,318 $168,500 est. |
60,000 |
|
|
International Orthodox Christian Charities Extension |
GFE-268-2001/674-00 GFE-268-2002/1135-00 7/24/02 |
Total: Corn |
27,000 8,000 |
$3,622,480 $892,800 |
22,000 |
|
|
Adventist Development and Relief Agency |
GFE-687-2001/683-00 |
Total: |
1,795 895 |
$2,209,999 |
50,000 |
|
|
International Partnership for Human Development |
GFE-117-2001/669-00 |
Total: |
28,400 |
$8,311,072 |
266,000 |
|
|
Project Concern International (PCI) Extension |
GFE-524-2001/667-00 GFE-524-2002/1136-00 8/30/02 |
Total: Wheat Vegetable Oil |
3,960 260 70 280 2,000 |
$1,474,589 $714,000 est. |
35,000 |
|
|
Counterpart International |
GFE-685-2001/681-00 |
Total: |
7,59 50 |
$1,595,195 |
54,000 |
|
|
Save the Children Extension |
GFE-617-2001/672-00 GFE-617-2002/1137-00 8/29/02 |
Total: Total: CSB Cornmeal NFDM Rice Vegetable Oil |
640 640 160 150 120 150 60 |
$434,557 $367,010 est. |
5,000 |
|
|
Uganda |
ACDI/VOCA |
GFE-617-2002/967-00 5/22/02 |
Total: CSB Rice Soybean Oil Wheat |
6,330 1,200 400 110 4,620 |
$1,122,910 est. |
20,000 |
|
Land O’ Lakes Extension |
GFE-440-2001/668-00 GFE-440-2002/1138-00 8/22/02 |
Total: Total: NFDM Soybean Meal Wheat |
43,300 16,800 550 6,250 10,000 |
$9,345,597 $3,820,500 est. |
315,000 |
|
|
Yemen |
Adventist Development Relief Agency |
GFE-279-2002/995-00 8/6/02 |
Total: Vegetable Oil Wheat Flour |
5,000 500 4,500 |
$1,395,000 est. |
30,000 |
|
PVO Total |
486,375 |
$105,181,382 |
1,885,953 |
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Government
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Dominican Republic |
Government of Dominican Republic |
GFE-517-2001/687-00 |
Total: |
62,200 |
$11,871,343 |
30,000 |
World Food Program (WFP)
|
Country |
Agreement Number |
Donated U.S. Commodities |
Metric Tons |
Estimated Commodity |
Estimated Recipients |
|
|
GFW-366-2001/688-00 GFW-366-2001/1139-01 |
Wheat Wheat |
1,070 8,490 |
$170,695 $375,142 |
30,936 |
|
Extension |
GFW-511-2001/689-00 GFW-511-2002/1139-00 8/01/02 |
Wheat Wheat |
7,880 8,490 |
$1,014,944 $1,137,660 est. |
102,176 |
|
GFW-442-2001/690-00 |
Total: |
1,660 |
$398,64 |
181,956 |
|
|
Extension |
GFW-631-2001/691-00 GFW-631-2002/1140-00 7/29/02 |
Corn Rice |
1,058 390 |
$112,148 $85,800 est. |
92,074 |
|
|
GFW-442-2001/690-00 GFW-677-2001/754-00 |
Cornmeal Total: |
1,700 3,170 |
$398,962 $900,283 |
123,377 |
|
GFW-514-2001/694-00 |
Wheat |
3,655 |
$478,878 |
20,000 |
|
|
Extension |
GFW-681-2001/693-00 GFW-681-2002/1141-00 7/18/02 |
Rice Total: Rice Soybean oil |
700 690 640 50 |
$136,185 $175,450 est. |
254,133 |
|
GFW-517-2001/840-00 |
Rice |
310 |
$59,337 |
95,028 |
|
|
Extension |
GFW-519-2001/696-00 GFW-519-2002/1142-00 7/24/02 |
Total: Total: Corn Rice Soybean oil |
9,040 6,930 4,930 1,900 100 |
$1,448,832 $995,090 est. |
148,000 |
|
Extension |
GFW-663-2001/697-00 GFW-663-2001/738-00 GFW-663-2002/1143-00 7/18/02 |
CSB Total: CSB |
3,990 6,950 6,880 |
$978,054 $2,594,192 $1,953,970 est. |
296,174 |
|
Extension |
GFW-635-2001/698-00 GFW-635-2001/739-00 GFW-635-2002/1144-00 7/25/02 |
Total: Total: Wheat |
900 2,570 1,590 |
$203,157 $1,011,626 $349,800 est. |
132,247 |
|
Extension |
GFW-641-2001/699-00 GFW-641-2002/1145-00 7/26/02 |
Total: Rice |
1,065 1,020 |
$295,908 $224,400 est. |
6,500 |
|
GFW-675-2001/700-00 GFW-675-2002/1108-02 |
CSB Total: Soybean oil CSB Rice |
150 1,410 350 230 830 |
$55,105 $430,317 |
52,253 |
|
|
GFW-522-2001/701-00 GFW-522-2002/1101-01 11/8/01 |
Total: Corn |
8,050 1,400 |
$1,197,169 $181,250 |
185,230 |
|
|
Extension |
GFW-615-2001-702-00 GFW-615-2001/741-00 GFW-615-2002/1146-01 7/25/02 |
Total: CSM Corn Corn Corn |
68,500 2,400 10,970 |
$10,229,532 $289,344 $987,300 est. |
1,714,738 |
|
Extension |
GFW-656-2001/704-01 GFW-656-2001/743-00 GFW-656-2002/1147-00 7/26/02 |
Total: Total: Soybean oil Total: Rice Soybean oil |
2,300 6,500 7,000 6,500 500 |
$516,247 $1,683,464 $1,742,000 est. |
43,500 |
|
|
GFW-367-2001/703-00 GFW-367-2001/744-00 |
WSB Total: |
200 5,962 4,072 1,890 |
$79,445 $2,710,778 |
200,000 |
|
Extension |
GFW-524-2001/705-00 GFW-524-2001/755-00 GFW-524-2002/1148-00 7/29/02 |
Total: CSB Total: CSM Total: Corn CSM Flour Rice |
970 100 14,960 3,630 2,380 6,170 2,780 8,000 2,500 1,000 1,000 3,500 |
$160,158 $5,138,788 $1,512,000 est. |
580,000 |
|
Extension |
GFW-391-2001/745-00 GFW-391-2002/1149-00 7/25/02 |
Soybean oil Soybean oil |
5,860 1,304 |
$4,407,960 $813,696 est. |
58,000 |
|
Extension |
GFW-527-2001/706-00 GFW-527-2002/1150-00 7/25/02 |
Wheat Wheat |
10,000 8,000 |
$1,284,300 $1,072,000 est. |
135,042 |
|
|
GFW-119-2001/707-00 GFW-119-2001/746-00 |
Wheat Flour Total: Soybean oil |
380 3,640 |
$105,005 $1,173,318 |
219,000 |
|
Extension |
GFW-621-2001/708-00 GFW-621-2002/1151-00 7/17/02 |
Total: Total: Corn Soybean oil |
2,050 2,350 2,100 250 |
$373,962 $175,690 est. |
75,000 |
|
Uganda Extension |
GFW-617-2001/756-00 GFW-617-2001/709-00 GFW-617-2002/1152-00 7/25/02 |
CSM Total: Soybean oil |
1,220 6,060 250 |
$465,991 $1,112,548 $173,250 est. |
166,613 |
|
WFP Total |
254,705 |
$53,629,426 |
4,911,977 |
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|
GRAND TOTAL |
803,280 |
$170,682,151 |
6,827,930 |
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CS=Corn-Soy; CSB=Corn-Soy Blend; CSB=Corn-Soy Milk; HRW=Hard Red Winter; NFDM=Nonfat Dry Milk; NS=Northern Spring; SF=Soy-Fortified; WSB=Wheat-Soy Blend
PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS
Albania / Catholic
Relief Services
GFE-182-2001/675-00,
GFE-182-2002/1127-00
The program targets
34,000 pre-school children in kindergartens. CRS is using the commodities to
provide nutritious meals for these vulnerable students and to spur the
development of Parent-School Partnerships.
Albania / CARE
GFE-182-2001/834-00,
GFE-182-2002/1126-00
The program
conducts school feeding programs for about 14,000 students. CARE also
implements a school rehabilitation program to repair 30 schools. These
activities are supported by monetization of approximately 37,000 tons of U.S.
wheat.
Albania / Mercy-USA
GFE-182-2002/987-00
MUSA provides
school lunches to 30,000 primary students in targeted rural and urban communities
in north and central Albania. In addition to distributing the rice, corn oil,
and wheat flour as bread, MUSA will barter wheat flour for locally produced
foodstuffs necessary for well-balanced meals for primary students.
Bangladesh / Land O’Lakes
GFE-388-2002/963-00,
GFE-388-2002/963-0A
LOL implements a
school feeding program that will distribute aseptically packed,
ultra-high-temperature-treated milk and fortified wheat biscuits to
approximately 350,000 school children throughout two school years. LOL will
also use sales proceeds to support the costs of training dairy and food
processors to upgrade their operational capacity, monitoring, and evaluation.
Benin / Catholic Relief Services
GFE-680-2001/677-00,
GFE-680-2002/1128-00
The program provides
two meals each school day to about 10,000 students over the school year. CRS is
also providing commodities to Parent-Teacher Associations to complement the
communities’ implementation of school canteen projects to approximately 3,500
girls in 60 schools in the northern region of Benin.
Bhutan /
World Food Program
GFW-366-2001/688-00,
GFW-366-2001/742-00
The
WFP’s school feeding program in Bhutan continues to provide assistance to about
31,000 children. The project is providing two cooked meals a day for boarding
school children and one meal for children attending day school. WFP and the
government of Bhutan have placed special emphasis on increasing the attendance
of girls because of resistance from parents to allowing girls to be educated at
boarding schools. WFP will increase participation in the school feeding program
by an additional 15,000 children.
Bolivia / Project
Concern International
GFE-511-2001/679-00,
GFE-511-2002/1129-00
In addition to a
school feeding program, PCI plans to monetize nonfat dry milk and wheat. The
proceeds are being used to increase the number of meals served to school
children; increase enrollment and attendance, especially for females; and
increase the number of teachers trained in participatory classroom methods.
Bolivia / Adventist Development and Relief
Agency
GFE-511-2002/1981-00
ADRA is using the commodities in a direct
feeding program. The program will
provide 87,572 primary school children for one year in order to improve
enrollment, attendance, performance, and increase the likelihood the children
will continue their education into secondary school.
Bolivia /
World Food Program
GFW-511-2001/689-00,
GFE-511-2002/981-00
In
Bolivia, the program is providing educational support to pre-school and primary
school children in the most depressed areas of the country. The feeding
activity will enable young children and nursing mothers to meet their special
nutritional and nutrition-related health needs, and enable poor households to
invest in human capital through education and training. The USDA donations will
feed an estimated 102,000 recipients.
Bosnia and Herzegovina /
Catholic Relief Services
GFE-168-2001/676-00,
GFE-168-2002/1130-00
During the 2001/02
and 2002/03 school years, CRS provides a nutritional snack or sandwich daily to
30,000 vulnerable students in approximately 100 schools throughout Bosnia and
Herzegovina. The contents of the snacks or sandwiches will vary by what is
available locally, and nutritional values will be based on the age of the students.
CRS will organize and work with parent councils to identify, develop, and
implement projects that promote more community involvement in schools and
increased parental involvement in education.
Cambodia / World Food
Program
GFW-442-2001/690-00
In Cambodia, through an ongoing school feeding program which began in
October 1999, this WFP program is designed to relieve "short-term"
hunger among school children, particularly those living in remote rural areas.
Another important aspect of this program encourages female students to enroll
and stay in school. It is expected that in the long-term, Cambodia will
eventually be responsible for its school feeding program as a result of
structural reforms now being put in place.
Cameroon /
World Food Program
GFW-631-2001/691-00,
GFW-631-2002/1140-00
In Cameroon, assistance is providing on a priority basis to schools in
poverty-ridden areas of four provinces where enrollment rates are markedly
below the national average. The goals are to increase school enrollment and
attendance. The project calls for local communities to run and finance their
schools, while WFP assistance will be limited to the primary sector and rural
areas. Take-home rations will be provided to senior girls. The program
envisions providing rations for 92,000.
Chad / World
Food Program
GFW-442-2001/690-00,
GFW-677-2001/754-00
With USDA's contribution, WFP is providing a hot lunch for children in
primary schools in the most vulnerable zone of the Sahel in Chad. Girls'
education is promoted through take-home family rations as part of a joint
UNICEF/WFP initiative.
Colombia / World Food
Program
GFW-514-2001/694-00
In Colombia, WFP exchanges donated wheat for local food commodities in
order to improve the nutritional status of internally displaced children. This
objective will be met by providing lunch to pre-school children, and breakfast
and a fortified biscuit snack to primary school children. A total of 20,000 students are being fed.
Congo / International
Partnership for Human Development
GFE-679-2001/671-00,
GFE-679-2002/1131-00
During the 2001/02
and 2002/03 school years, IPHD provides a school lunch daily to 125,000 primary
school children in the coastal region of Pointe Noire and the provinces of
Pool, Brazzaville, and Niari. Up to 600 schools are participating. IPHD is
arranging for the donated food to be prepared by a volunteer committee of
village women, organized by the school principal or designated teacher.
Proceeds from monetizing the U.S.-donated commodities are being used to
purchase cooking utensils and local foods to complement meals prepared at the
school. IPHD is also using a portion of the proceeds to repair schools.
Cote d'Ivoire / World
Food Program
GFW-681-2001/693-00,
GFW-681-2002/1141-00
In Cote d'Ivoire, WFP continues to provide children with a hot lunch under
the GFE initiative. A hot lunch is recognized as an important component in
encouraging student enrollment and reducing the dropout rate. The program gives
special attention to female school children, working to reduce the gender gap
in school attendance. The government of Cote d'Ivoire strongly supports this
program, covering internal transportation, storage, and handling costs incurred
under the program.
Dominican Republic /
Government of Dominican Republic
GFE-517-2001/687-00
The government of
the Dominican Republic is using proceeds from the monetized commodities to fund
community-based school feeding activities in under-served areas of the country.
The program is providing grants for the most needy communities that are best
able to develop proposals addressing the goals of the GFE program. In addition
to school feeding, some examples of community projects that may be funded under
this initiative include school infrastructure, potable water systems, rural
sanitation, nutrition education, and teacher training.
Dominican
Republic / World Food Program
GFW-517-2001/840-00
In
the Dominican Republic, WFP continues to provide assistance in the school
feeding program started in 1992. WFP has expanded the project to rural schools in
ten provinces along Haiti’s poorest and most difficult to reach borders. WFP
will provide an estimated 95,000 preschool and primary school children with
daily hot lunches. WFP partners with the government of the Dominican Republic
in this effort.
El Salvador
/ World Food Program
GFW-519-2001/696-00,
GFW-519-2002/1142-00
In
El Salvador, WFP supports school feeding programs to help alleviate hunger for
around 148,000 primary and kindergarten students, including 84,700 girls in the
poorest areas of the country. The school feeding program encourages good health
practices both at home and at school, particularly in relation to food
preparation.
Eritrea / Mercy Corps
GFE-661-2001/647-00,
GFE-661-2002/1132-00
During the 2001/02
and 2002/03 school yeara, MC distributes high-energy biscuits to approximately
35,000 primary school students in 150 schools. In addition, MC also provides
training and small grants to Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) in targeted
schools, as well as funds to the PTA to conduct information campaigns promoting
education for girls.
Ethiopia /
World Food Program
GFW-663-2001/697-00,
GFW-663-2001/738-00, GFW-663-2002/1143-00
WFP’s school feeding program in Ethiopia supports almost 300,000 students,
of whom 35 percent are girls, in three regions. The project offers feeding at
schools, with local communities participating in food preparation. WFP intends
to expand the project to cover additional primary school children (50 percent
girls). The expansion would increase the number of beneficiaries within the
currently supported areas, as well as expand operations to more crisis-prone,
food deficit regions.
Gambia /
World Food Program
GFW-635-2001/698-00,
GFW-635-2001/739-00, GFW-635-2002/1144-00
WFP's school
feeding project in Gambia targets 260 primary schools in poor, rural,
food-deficit areas with low enrollment rates. The GFE project will allow WFP to
continue this program and support 132,247 children, of which at least 43
percent will be girls.
Georgia /
International Orthodox Christian Charities
GFE-114-2001/673-00,
GFW-114-2002/1133-00
IOCC implements a direct distribution program to provide school lunches to
approximately 14,000 children. The program will target children ages 5-15 who
are enrolled in schools in Tbilisi and in southern and western Georgia. IOCC is
also using proceeds from the sale of wheat to support health, environmental,
and civic education programs in Georgia.
Georgia / Counterpart International
GFE-114-2002/989-00
During the 2002/03 school year, CPI provides
daily meals to students in approximately 140 schools in the Kakheti and
Samagrelo regions of Georgia. Targeted
schools include boarding schools for orphans and children with no support. CPI provides a hot porridge and complement
the meal by using proceeds from wheat sales to purchase locally produced eggs,
cheese, fruits and vegetables.
Additionally, sales proceeds are used to fund school repair,
distribution of donated products such as winter clothing, kitchen equipment and
school supplies, and to conduct nutrition and food safety education programs.
Ghana / World Food
Program
GFW-641-2001/699-00,
GFW-641-2002/1145-00
In Ghana, the WFP
operates a Girls' Education Program. This initiative provides take-home rations
for girls that attend classes at least 85 percent of the time. Results are
encouraging, both in terms of girls' enrollment and school attendance. The
project is targeted to the three northern regions where poverty levels are
highest and enrollment of girls is lowest. The approved project provides food
to an estimated 6,500 children.
Guatemala / Catholic
Relief Services
GFE-520-2002/958-00,
GFE-520-2002/958-0A
CRS provides 2,010
metric tons of commodities as take-home rations to primary school children and teachers
to encourage increased classroom attendance and teacher training. This activity
is supplemented by local sales of 26,300 metric tons of corn to provide a daily
school lunch, educational materials, and building improvements.
Guatemala / World Share
GFE-520-2001/686-00
World SHARE
implements a school feeding program that distributes approximately 1,020 metric
tons of commodities to beneficiaries in high-poverty, rural areas of Guatemala.
These activities are supported by the monetization of 20,000 metric tons of
corn. World SHARE also provides food-for-work rations to community laborers to
construct primary school classrooms.
Guinea /
World Food Program
GFW-675-2001/700-00
The WFP program aims to reduce food insecurity in Guinea and promote educational
aspects of development. The program will target the poorest rural areas of the
country and help to alleviate hunger in schoolchildren. There will be special
emphasis on encouraging girls to attend school. USDA contributions to this
program will help feed an estimated 52,000 participants.
Honduras / Catholic
Relief Services
GFE-522-2002/982-00,
GFE-522-2002/982-0A
CRS implements a
school feeding program that distributes approximately 320 metric tons of
commodities to beneficiaries in southern Lempira, the poorest zone in this
region. These activities are supported by the sale of 11,100 metric tons of
wheat. Proceeds from the wheat are also used for nutrition and hygiene
training, and to purchase school supplies.
Honduras /
World Food Program
GFW-522-2001/701-00
The school lunches provided under WFP’s program in Honduras consist of a hot
meal cooked by the parents’ committees and distributed before classes start.
WFP assists 185,000 children through the protracted relief and recovery
operation. Objectives of the school feeding program include a 10-percent
reduction in dropout rates, a 15-percent reduction in absenteeism, and the
strengthening of capacity and support for education in Honduras.
Kenya /
World Food Progam
GFW-615-2001/741-00,
GFW-615-2001/702-00
The
WFP provides food assistance to thousands of school children in disadvantaged
and arid regions of Kenya under this specialized school feeding program. The
USDA donation will help feed approximately 47,400 children as part of this
program. Multiple evaluations of this program conclude that the WFP food
assistance is instrumental in encouraging attendance, limiting dropout rates,
and maintaining caloric intake for nutritionally vulnerable students. Under the school feeding component of the
emergency operation, the USDA donation will provide a mid-day meal to about 1.7
million school children in arid and semi-arid land districts. Half the
schoolchildren receiving food assistance are girls. The program will help
encourage school attendance for vulnerable populations during a time of
drought.
Kyrgyzstan / Mercy Corps
GFE-116-2001/662-00,
GFE-116-2002/1134-00
The program will
provide meals and food-for-work projects in 447 kindergartens and 50 boarding
schools in Kyrgyzstan. Funds generated by the sale of part of the commodities
are used to buy additional food locally, set up food-for-work programs, provide
grant assistance for rebuilding and repairing school facilities, and provide
school supplies.
Lebanon /
International Orthodox Christian Charities
GFE-268-2001/674-00,
GFE-268-2002/1135-00
IOCC implements a
direct distribution program to provide school lunches to approximately 22,000
children. The program targets children ages 5-11 who are enrolled in schools
located in Beirut, southern Lebanon, and the Akkar district in northern
Lebanon. IOCC also uses monetized proceeds from the sale of wheat to support
health, environmental, and civic education programs in Lebanon.
Madagascar / Adventist
Development and Relief Agency
GFE-687-2001/683-00
This school feeding
program provides meals of corn-soy blend and nonfat dry milk to approximately
50,000 primary school students. A total
of about 200 public and private schools will participate in the highland
province of Antananarivo. Both urban
and rural districts are targeted.
Moldova / International
Partnership for Human Development
GFE-117-2001/669-00
Under this
program IPHD distributes monthly rations to 50,000 pre-school and kindergarten
children and 216,000 primary school children, for a total of 266,000 children
ages 11 years and under. IPHD uses monetization proceeds to enable schools to
purchase local foods to complement U.S.-donated commodities for school lunches.
Up to 1,250 primary schools benefit. In addition, to restart the school lunch
program, IPHD allocates funds to participating schools, pre-schools, and
kindergartens for purchasing materials such as pots, cups, plates, spoons, and
other needed items.
Mozambique /
World Food Program
GFW-656-2001/704-01,
GFW-656-2001/743-00
In
Mozambique, WFP has been providing ongoing support, including a morning snack
and noon meal, to 43,500 children attending boarding schools. Support for these boarding schools is
crucial for the continued attendance and access to primary and secondary
education countrywide. This is especially important in the country’s post-war
reconstruction efforts where there are not enough schools to accommodate all
the children.
Nepal /
World Food Program
GFW-367-2001/703-00,
GFW-367-2001/744-00
In
Nepal, WFP uses GFE donations to continue to provide 200,000 pre-primary and
primary school children with a daily hot snack. The snack has helped reduce
afternoon absenteeism in schools, while improving child health and nutrition.
The children in this project also benefit from a parasite-control joint effort
with the World Health Organization.
Nicaragua / Project
Concern International
GFE-524-2001/667-00,
GFE-524-2002/1136-00
Project Concern International (PCI) monetized refined soybean oil to buyers
in Nicaragua. The proceeds are used to provide daily breakfasts to 35,000
children attending schools in four selected municipalities in the state of
Jinotega, Nicaragua. In addition, PCI implements a supplemental feeding program
through direct food distribution. This project is intended to improve education
in Nicaragua by increasing school attendance, expanding teacher training, and
increasing parental participation.
Nicaragua / World Food
Program
GFW-524-2001/705-00,
GFW-524-2001/755-00
The WFP supports school feeding with several programs in Nicaragua. Through an ongoing program, WFP is providing
a hot lunch to 10,000 pre-school children. In addition, WFP is providing 70,000
primary school children with a snack consisting of a high-protein biscuit and
fortified drink to encourage them to return to school and continue studying. Another project provides a cooked meal to 250,000 pre-school
children. In addition, to encourage children to return to school and continue
studying, WFP is providing a snack consisting of a high-protein biscuit with a
fortified drink to 250,000 primary school children.
Pakistan /
World Food Program
GFW-391-2001/745-00,
GFW-392-2002/1149-00
WFP
is working with the government of Pakistan to increase the enrollment of 58,000
girls in rural primary schools. The projects focus on using food as a strategy
to attract girls to attend school. For a minimum of 20 days a month of school
attendance, each girl will receive vegetable oil as an incentive. WFP will
provide future resources to increase enrollment by 175,800.
Peru / World
Food Program
GFW-527-2001/706-00,
GFW-527-2002/1150-00
WFP’s school feeding program in Peru provides assistance targeted to the
country’s three poorest areas. WFP provides micro-nutrient enriched snacks to
help reduce anemia and thus increase learning capacity for 81,000 primary
school students (40,600 girls) and to 19,000 pre-school children (9,800 girls).
These beneficiaries are located in selected rural, food deficit areas of the
Sierra highlands. WFP also provides support to 35,000 children, half of whom
are girls, located on the border with Ecuador.
Senegal / Counterpart
International
GFE-685-2001/681-00
During the 2001/02
school year, CPI provides daily meals to all students in the Podor district. In
addition, CPI provides medicine for children, conduct nutrition education, and
provide small improvement grants for schools.
Tajikistan /
World Food Program
GFW-119-2001/707-00, GFW-119-2001/746-00
WFP continues to implement a successful school feeding program in
Tajikistan to increase the attendance of girls being kept from school because
of financial difficulties at home. The project will expand to assist a total of
219,000 children in over 500 schools.
Tanzania /
World Food Program
GFW-621-2001/708-00,
GFW-621-2002/1151-00
In Tanzania, WFP is working to increase student enrollment and attendance and
to reduce dropout rates. The program is aimed at 4,000 pre-school and 71,000
primary school children in ten districts. The project provides two meals to
children–porridge at mid-morning and a full meal at lunch.
Uganda / Save the Children
GFE-617-2001/672-00,
GFE-617-2002/1137-00
Save the Children
implements a direct feeding pilot project to increase participation in primary
schools. The private voluntary organization will use U.S. commodities to
provide a daily lunch to 5,000 students in 48 classes at seven community
schools.
Uganda / ACDI/VOCA
GFE-617-2002/967-00
ACDI/VOCA improves the quality of and primary access to
primary education for 20,000 Ugandan students in 20-30 disadvantaged districts
of Gulu and Kitgum. ACDI/VOCA arranged
with Catholic Relief Services-Uganda to jointly implement a program that
includes developing parent-teacher associations, providing take-home food
rations to primary school students, supporting educators and administrators,
and promoting school gardens. The
overall strategy is to improve the ability of rural families to send their
children to school, while helping school districts provide quality education
and assisting communities in becoming more involved with schools.
Uganda / World Food Program
GFW-617-2001/709-00,
GFW-617-2001/756-00, GFW-617-2002/1152-00
Under the program, the WFP provides food to
66,000 internally displaced children living in refugee camps in Uganda. A
school meal is provided to the children, of which 38 percent are girls. The WFP continues to assist the government
of Uganda in fulfilling its education sector development goals through ongoing
school feeding. Another project targets beneficiaries in the Karamoja region,
an area plagued by chronic food insecurity and populated by semi-nomadic people
who traditionally have been reluctant to send their children to school. USDA’s
GFE donation will help feed 100,000 school children, of which 47 percent are
girls.
Vietnam
/ Land O' Lakes
GFE-440-2001/668-00, GFE-440-2002/1138-00
The program provides 200-milliliter milk boxes and fortified biscuits to
around 315,000 children. Part of the commodity donation was monetized to cover
the costs of administering the program.
The program will provide take-home rations to 30,000 female
students three times per year in the Taiz governorate. The program is designed to encourage rural
schoolgirls to begin and continue attending school and increase her status in
the family because she is contributing to the well being of the family. ADRA is working in conjunction with the
Ministry of Education, who has committed resources to ensure there are adequate
resources to meet the increase in attendance.
ADRA will also work with local community organizations to raise
awareness of the value of education for girls and ensure continued support for
their education.