WFP is the UN’s front-line food aid agency, providing food to an average of 90 million of the world’s poorest people, including 58 million children per year. The organization strives for a world in which everyone has access at all times to the food they need to lead a full life. WFP fights hunger – the biggest health threat world-wide – via emergency aid, relief and rehabilitation programmes, as well as development projects such as the school feeding programme.

Through its school feeding programme, WFP provides meals for about 20 million school children each year. WFP runs this programme in about 70 countries, including Kenya, Indonesia, Ghana and Colombia, which are the chosen recipients for the funds donated by Family Goodness. School Feeding has proven to be a very successful initiative because it motivates parents to send children to school, thus leading to increased and continued attendance. A nutritious school meal also means that the children can concentrate better and therefore learn better. For many children in Kenya, the WFP school meal is often the only meal they have in a day.

To find out more about the countries where such aid is needed, click here.

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