The Republic of Korea, through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), contributed US$3 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to provide daily hot meals to school children in the department of Jinotega and in the Autonomous Region of the Northern Caribbean coast.
This contribution supports WFP’s project “Promoting climate resilience and school feeding among vulnerable communities in Nicaragua.” For the next three years, the project will promote the use of school gardens to provide fresh food for the daily meals of children attending pre and primary schools in Jinotega and the Northern Caribbean coast.
Namanjí is a small rural community of 200 homes. Its inhabitants are engaged in agriculture and work primarily in local tobacco farms. Some 140 children attend school. Parents cook school meals at home and bring them to school every day because the school does not have its own kitchen.
Over the next three years (2019-2021), Korean authorities hope to contribute to school attendance and retention and to build climate resilience through school gardens.
“This initiative will have a positive impact on the nutritional status of children, improve learning and increase knowledge of both parents and children about resilience and the sustainable use of resources,” said Deputy Director of KOICA, Jiun Yun.
“We appreciate this valuable contribution from our friends of the Republic of Korea, who support the education and nutrition of girls and boys in Nicaragua,” said WFP Deputy Country Director, Hebert López.
Original source: WFP
Published on 30 August 2019
