The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassador against Hunger, Hend Sabry, visited two schools in Fayoum this week to promote efforts to encourage school enrolment and regular attendance especially for girls.
Sabry visited schools in two villages in Fayoum that benefit from WFP’s school feeding project. The UN agency supports Egypt’s existing national school feeding programme. The two schools she visited are part of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood’s Girls Education Initiative.
“I am happy to feel that the girls are not only here to study but it was very obvious how they love their school and are attached to it and to their teacher,” Sabry said. “I am proud to be here today and to see the positive effect of the programme on the girls’ lives,” she said.
Around 400,000 children and their family members benefit from WFP’s school feeding scheme in 11 governorates in Egypt that include Beni Suef, Menia, Sohag, Qena and Assiut.
“Today, all the girls told me their families send them to school because of the monthly food ration they receive,” said Sabry who spent the day talking to the students.
Students receive a midday snack of nutritious date bars and each student is entitled to a take-home monthly food ration of 10 kg of rice if she stays in school 85 percent of the month. Similar food-for-education projects in Egypt are also designed to combat child labour and both boys and girls benefit from them.
“Distribution is tied to regular attendance and are an incentive for families to send and keep children at school,” said WFP Egypt Representative and Country Director Gianpietro Bordignon. “As a result of WFP support to the government’s school feeding project, both in-school snacks and take-home rations are fortified with essential nutrients that improve children’s performance and ability to concentrate,” he added.
Last week, WFP welcomed a donation of 10,400 Egyptian pounds (around US$1,800) from the Inner Wheel Giza-Pyramids Club members following an April event where Sabry promoted the agency’s school feeding projects in Egypt.
“This is just a small amount but we consider this as seeds for many more donation drives at the different chapters of Inner Wheel Egypt,” said Ms. Sabah Sabet, the President of the Inner Wheel Egypt Giza-Pyramids Club. “When Hend attended our last event, she directed our attention towards WFP and its work in promoting equal access to education, an area that our members deeply care about.”
The popular actress will this week attend an event at the Egyptian Diplomatic Diplomatic Club where she will discuss WFP’s projects in Egypt and the Middle East.
WFP provides meals to around 22 million children in schools in some 70 countries; about half of them are girls.The UN World Food Programme (WFP) Ambassador against Hunger, Hend Sabry, visited two schools in Fayoum this week to promote efforts to encourage school enrolment and regular attendance especially for girls.
Sabry visited schools in two villages in Fayoum that benefit from WFP’s school feeding project. The UN agency supports Egypt’s existing national school feeding programme. The two schools she visited are part of the National Council for Childhood and Motherhood’s Girls Education Initiative.
“I am happy to feel that the girls are not only here to study but it was very obvious how they love their school and are attached to it and to their teacher,” Sabry said. “I am proud to be here today and to see the positive effect of the programme on the girls’ lives,” she said.
Around 400,000 children and their family members benefit from WFP’s school feeding scheme in 11 governorates in Egypt that include Beni Suef, Menia, Sohag, Qena and Assiut.
“Today, all the girls told me their families send them to school because of the monthly food ration they receive,” said Sabry who spent the day talking to the students.
Students receive a midday snack of nutritious date bars and each student is entitled to a take-home monthly food ration of 10 kg of rice if she stays in school 85 percent of the month. Similar food-for-education projects in Egypt are also designed to combat child labour and both boys and girls benefit from them.
“Distribution is tied to regular attendance and are an incentive for families to send and keep children at school,” said WFP Egypt Representative and Country Director Gianpietro Bordignon. “As a result of WFP support to the government’s school feeding project, both in-school snacks and take-home rations are fortified with essential nutrients that improve children’s performance and ability to concentrate,” he added.
Last week, WFP welcomed a donation of 10,400 Egyptian pounds (around US$1,800) from the Inner Wheel Giza-Pyramids Club members following an April event where Sabry promoted the agency’s school feeding projects in Egypt.
“This is just a small amount but we consider this as seeds for many more donation drives at the different chapters of Inner Wheel Egypt,” said Ms. Sabah Sabet, the President of the Inner Wheel Egypt Giza-Pyramids Club. “When Hend attended our last event, she directed our attention towards WFP and its work in promoting equal access to education, an area that our members deeply care about.”
The popular actress will this week attend an event at the Egyptian Diplomatic Diplomatic Club where she will discuss WFP’s projects in Egypt and the Middle East.
WFP provides meals to around 22 million children in schools in some 70 countries; about half of them are girls.
WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. Each year, on average, WFP feeds more than 90 million people in more than 70 countries
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