What plans are there for making school lunches available for all children?
The Government of Egypt distributes snacks to primary students all over the country. It reaches over 12 million students annually with an investment of LE 354 million (US $62 million). WFP technical support enables the Ministry of Education to strengthen the design of its program and its targeting methods and improves the nutritional composition of food items offered. WFP also supports the Government of Egypt in establishing monitoring and reporting systems. Thanks to WFP policy advocacy, during the 2007/08 school year the Government of Egypt increased the annual funding allocation by LE 100 million ($18.9 million). This additional budgetary allocation will be made available over the next five years to the school feeding program budget and is reserved to the most vulnerable governorates as per WFP recommendation. It is planned that the ongoing reform process of the National School Feeding Program, as supported by WFP and other partners, should reach a sustainable mechanism of providing
