Ethiopia

Fatuma receives daily school meals and wants to be a teacher when she grows up

Copyright: WFP/Melese Awoke

“Nothing should stop me,” says Ethiopian schoolgirl

WFP’s school meals programme has benefitted millions of school children across Ethiopia over the last 19 years and currently serves some 650,000 students in 1,800 schools in different parts of the country. Fatuma is one of those children.
 

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Overview

WFP’s guiding principle in Ethiopia is to support government programmes addressing hunger by using food assistance where it adds value, and by enhancing the capacity to implement hunger solutions. WFP Ethiopia conducts several initiatives to meet this end, including the National Relief Programme, the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP), Targeted Supplementary Feeding, the HIV/AIDS Programme, the Purchase for Progress Programme (P4P), Food for Education, MERET (Managing Environmental Resources to Enable Transition), Food Assistance to Refugees and the use of Cash and Vouchers in its operations.

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