WFP’s mission is to ensure that all school aged children have access to school meals and are healthy and ready to learn. The school feeding programme supports governments in establishing sustainable national school feeding programmes with the ultimate goal to encourage and facilitate national government ownership of these programmes.
Egypt
WFP complements the GoE in delivering an integrated package for schoolchildren by using schools as an exceptionally cost-effective platform for food delivery. In 2021, the temporary closure of community schools and other operational bottlenecks due to the COVID 19 put the national school-feeding programme on hold. Despite the hurdles faced, WFP’s school feeding programme complemented the national programme by targeting schools in the poorest governorates through the provision of unconditional cash assistance.