The funds will enable WFP to resume the provision of a daily hot meal to 50,000 children in 186 public primary schools and traditional religious schools in vulnerable districts of the two regions in the new school year, which starts in September after a lack of funding had forced WFP to halt its school meals programme temporarily.
The contribution will also help build the capacity of - and strengthen collaboration with - Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education through implementation of the joint school meals action plan.
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