"World Food": School feeding will reach 1.2 million students in Yemen
English - Monday 16 December 2019 الساعة 08:57 am
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The World Food Program, affiliated to the United Nations, has announced its intention to expand the school feeding project implemented by the program in Yemen to reach 1.2 million students during the coming year 2020.
"Every child has the right to education, and for this reason the school's school feeding project in Yemen has expanded from 500,000 children to 665,000 children," the program said in a statement posted on its office in Yemen on Twitter.
The statement said that during the year 2020, the program intends to expand the project to reach approximately 1.2 million students in about 3,900 schools distributed in 80 districts in Yemen.
It pointed out that the World Food Program has repeatedly expanded its assistance in Yemen since the beginning of the conflict that caused the suffering of many, explaining that it currently provides food assistance to about 12 million people per month.
Activists in the relief and humanitarian field in Yemen question the validity of the figures and data announced by the international organizations, especially the World Food Program.
The WFP had admitted at the end of last year that part of international relief aid had been looted by the Houthi militia
The program suspended its activities for several months in the middle of this year in Sanaa and the neighboring governorates, under the pretext that aid went to those who were not entitled to it, and the Houthis continued to plunder part of the aid allocated to the poor, but it lifted the comment after concluding an agreement with the coup militia to ensure that it does not interfere in its work.
Once it resumed its activity, it pledged to change the distribution mechanism with a modern mechanism that relies on the field survey to ensure that those who are actually entitled to international assistance and accurately document their data and adopt the electronic fingerprint exchange system, but several months passed without any change in the old exchange mechanism in which the Houthis imposed the majority of the names of the beneficiaries of their militia Armed forces, as well as listing fake names, receive aid and sell it to wholesalers, and part of it is devoted to their war effort.
