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Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | WFP has handed over items to government of Uganda in support of the school feeding programme in Karamoja.
WFP’s home-grown school feeding programme collaborates with the Ministry of Education and Sports, and local partners to reach 198,800 children in 315 schools.
The programme buys food from farmers within Karamoja, creating the double benefit of empowering small holder farmers to grow quality food for a good price while they participate directly in nourishing the young generation.
The school feeding programme is therefore part of both the long term and short-term solution to hunger in Karamoja. In the short term, it is providing food to children who need it in order to have better education, health and life outcomes.
In the long term, WFP is working with farmers to give them lifelong skills on how to produce good quality food that they sell for a good price not only to WFP but to the wider market.
This way, WFP strengthens the food system, making it more inclusive of small holder farmers, most of them women, while enabling the county to feed on safe nutritious food.
During the recent World Food Day celebrations, Robinah Nabbanja, the Prime Minister of Uganda, said that with fertile soils and the right technology, no place in Uganda should be experiencing hunger. WFP interventions are but a part of many interventions by government and other partners in the sector.
WFP reiterated commitment to working with government to ensure that the people of Karamoja and everyone in
Uganda have enough nutritious food by 2030.
