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Nutritious Breakfasts Keeping Cambodian Children in School
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Published on 11 July 2011
  • Rural farmers in Cambodia start planting rice shoots from June, as the first monsoon rains begin to inundate and soften the land.
  • WFP’s Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit found the price of low quality rice in rural areas increased by 7.6% between 2010 and 2011. Such price shocks can push the poor into adopting harmful coping strategies to survive.
  • Children are often the victims of such household shocks, in many cases being pulled out of school to support their families. As reported in the Child Labour Survey 2001, some 1.4 million or 52% of children aged between 7 and 14 are economically active.
  • School drop outs can lead to intergenerational transfer of poverty in the long run; reinforcing the causal link between illiteracy and poverty. WFP works to prevent such negative impact on children by investing in education through food.
  • WFP provides hot breakfasts everyday to 500,000 students per year as an incentive for poor families to enroll their children in schools, ensure their regular attendance and completion.
  • Each school day begins the same. Children under the school meals programme come to school before classes start at 6:30 a.m. often bringing their own plates and cutlery.
  • Students take turns helping set up the breakfast by taking the food from the kitchen to the classrooms.
  • Breakfast consists of rice, fish and beans equating to 555 calories.
  • After finishing their breakfasts, students wash their plates and cutlery and return to their classrooms by 7a.m to start classes for the day.
  • The poorest children get an additional 15Kg of rice as a take home ration to further supplement household consumption. This takes pressure off their parents, enabling them to complete their education, giving them a better chance to escape poverty.
Rural farmers in Cambodia start planting rice shoots from June, as the first monsoon rains begin to inundate and soften the land.
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Copyright: Sterling Riber
Rural farmers in Cambodia start planting rice shoots from June, as the first monsoon rains begin to inundate and soften the land.

WFP Cambodia

WFP’s Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit found the price of low quality rice in rural areas increased by 7.6% between 2010 and 2011. Such price shocks can push the poor into adopting harmful coping strategies to survive.
preview
Copyright: WFP/Para Hunzai
WFP’s Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (VAM) unit found the price of low quality rice in rural areas increased by 7.6% between 2010 and 2011. Such price shocks can push the poor into adopting harmful coping strategies to survive.

WFP Cambodia

Children are often the victims of such household shocks, in many cases being pulled out of school to support their families. As reported in the Child Labour Survey 2001, some 1.4 million or 52% of children aged between 7 and 14 are economically active.
preview
Copyright: WFP/Mr.Chu Cancan
Children are often the victims of such household shocks, in many cases being pulled out of school to support their families. As reported in the Child Labour Survey 2001, some 1.4 million or 52% of children aged between 7 and 14 are economically active.

WFP Cambodia

School drop outs can lead to intergenerational transfer of poverty in the long run; reinforcing the causal link between illiteracy and poverty. WFP works to prevent such negative impact on children by investing in education through food.
preview
Copyright: WFP/Salvador Bustamante
School drop outs can lead to intergenerational transfer of poverty in the long run; reinforcing the causal link between illiteracy and poverty. WFP works to prevent such negative impact on children by investing in education through food.

WFP Cambodia

 

WFP provides hot breakfasts everyday to 500,000 students per year as an incentive for poor families to enroll their children in schools, ensure their regular attendance and completion.
preview
Copyright: WFP/Mr.Chu Cancan
WFP provides hot breakfasts everyday to 500,000 students per year as an incentive for poor families to enroll their children in schools, ensure their regular attendance and completion.

WFP Cambodia

Each school day begins the same. Children under the school meals programme come to school before classes start at 6:30 a.m. often bringing their own plates and cutlery.
preview
Copyright: WFP/Salvador Bustamante
Each school day begins the same. Children under the school meals programme come to school before classes start at 6:30 a.m. often bringing their own plates and cutlery.

WFP Cambodia

Students take turns helping set up the breakfast by taking the food from the kitchen to the classrooms.
preview
Copyright: Sterling Riber
Students take turns helping set up the breakfast by taking the food from the kitchen to the classrooms.

WFP Cambodia

Breakfast consists of rice, fish and beans equating to 555 calories.
preview
Copyright: Sterling Riber
Breakfast consists of rice, fish and beans equating to 555 calories.

WFP Cambodia

After finishing their breakfasts, students wash their plates and cutlery and return to their classrooms by 7a.m to start classes for the day.
preview
Copyright: WFP/Mr.Chu Cancan
After finishing their breakfasts, students wash their plates and cutlery and return to their classrooms by 7a.m to start classes for the day.

WFP Cambodia

The poorest children get an additional 15Kg of rice as a take home ration to further supplement household consumption. This takes pressure off their parents, enabling them to complete their education, giving them a better chance to escape poverty.
preview
Copyright: Sterling Riber
The poorest children get an additional 15Kg of rice as a take home ration to further supplement household consumption. This takes pressure off their parents, enabling them to complete their education, giving them a better chance to escape poverty.

WFP Cambodia

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