Thursday, March 14, 2024
School meal programmes are among the few social sector initiatives that generate equally high enthusiasm from governments in both the poorest and the richest nations. Even in these times of turbulence and uncertainty, most governments are highly...
Thursday, August 10, 2023
WFP works with the Government of Cambodia to promote gender equality, access to quality education, nutritious diets and social assistance for children in the country's pre-primary and primary schools. “School meals contribute to Cambodia’s human-...
Thursday, July 21, 2022
COVID-19 has kept more than 168 million children around the world out of school for more than one year, but as schools reopen it is important not to forget another stubborn and powerful barrier keeping children out of the classroom—distance....
Monday, February 28, 2022
t the beginning of 2020, national school feeding programs were delivering school meals to more children than at any time in human history, making school feeding the most extensive social safety net and the largest multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral...
Thursday, November 25, 2021
While great strides in poverty reduction have taken place in Colombia in the last decade, the number of people living below the poverty line increased by 6.8 percentage points since the start of the pandemic, reversing a decade of economic and...
Monday, October 11, 2021
As much as I hate to contribute towards the abandonment issues of a kitchen utensil, there’s a pot in my cupboard covered in dents that I can no longer use. Why? Because, just like you, I spent countless nights at the beginning of the pandemic standing...
Saturday, September 25, 2021
Egypt has recently increased charity work across the country as part of efforts to support the government’s social protection programs. In cooperation between the Egyptian government and 18 charitable institutions and associations, Egyptian President...
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
Over the past few decades, Nigeria’s primary education sector has faced myriad challenges such as religious, political, cultural and ethnic divides, coupled with poor facilities and rising insecurity which altogether have increased the number of out...
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
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There can be no excuse for the fact that child labour has increased for the first time in two...
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Tuesday, May 25, 2021
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One of the questions I attempt to answer in this article is what we might learn from social policy and...
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Africa, South Africa, America, Brazil
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