World Food Programme Fighting Hunger Worldwide

Thanks to WFP's school feeding programme, 360,000 children in rural primary schools, plus their teachers and school assistants, receive a nutritious hot meal accompanied by bread every day they attend class. And thanks to the generous support of the Russia Federation for the school feeding programme, the meal incorporates fortified wheat flour, enriched vegetable oil, iodized salt and protein-packed yellow split peas. A new consignment of yellow split peas arrived in Tajikistan from the Russian Federation in late February -- 1,200 metric tonnes with a monetary value of U.S. $1.2 million -- which were delivered to some 2,000 schools across all of Tajikistan to keep boys and girls healthy and happy to learn for the rest of the school year.     
 

The rail wagon carrying the yellow split peas travelled from Russia to the capital Dushanbe, where it was separated from the freight train and shunted to the WFP warehouse by a locomotive.

The bags of yellow split peas are removed from the rail wagon and loaded onto pallets for storage in the WFP warehouse. 

The Russian Federation is WFP's largest donor in Tajikistan and has a special interest in the school feeding programme, which is helping build the country's next generation.

A forklift truck transports a pallet bearing bags of peas and will load it into a truck destined for rural schools

A stack records card indicates the number of bags and the date they entered the warhouse. WFP maintains strict commodity tracking mechanisms for its food assistance.

Warehouse workers carry the sacks of split peas from the WFP warehouse in the city of Kyrgan-Tyube to a waiting truck that will be despatched to schools in the rural areas.