AYV News, April 25, 2025
The World Food Programme (WFP), in partnership with the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, has begun dispatching term 3 food supplies from locally grown rice and pulses.
This year, the WFP says it will deliver over 2,000 metric tons of rice (more than 40,000 bags) of food grown locally to feed over 270,000 school children across Sierra Leone.
At the UN Food Systems Summit Stocktaking in Rome last year, President Julius Maada Bio committed to continue investing in the National School Feeding Programme launched in 2018 and supporting over 800,000 children.
The Government has increased its budget for school feeding, covering 80 percent of the cost of the Programme. At the very event, Germany announced a new EUR 22 million grant for Sierra Leone and Laos to implement a food systems approach to their school meal programmes.
