Almost 60% of schools of Kyrgyzstan provided with hot meals – UN WFP

AKIPRESS.COM - Minister of Education and Sciences of Kyrgyzstan Kanybek Isakov and the United Nations World Food Programme Representative Andrea Bagnoli discussed the program on optimization of a school nutrition, the Ministry of Education reports.
The program is aimed at providing hot meals to primary school-aged children by launching economically effective models of school nutrition, improvement of legal basis and infrastructure of school canteens.
According to Andrea Bagnoli, almost 60% of schools of the country are covered with hot meals due to the joint work and support of donors in Kyrgyzstan.
About 100 more schools will be provided with hot meals in the coming year, he noted.