Coronavirus: 300 million children to miss school meals amid shutdowns

World Food Programme says nearly nine million children the organisation usually feeds are no longer receiving meals

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Three hundred million primary school children who depend on school meals are missing out due to closures triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, the World Food Programme says.

The WFP said nearly half the 18 million children the organisation feeds itself through school meal programmes across 61 countries, were no longer receiving them.

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from Children | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2xhm0k5