World Food Programme: State of School Feeding Worldwide 2020 (PNAE: p70)
Foreword
The COVID-19 pandemic has turned our world upside down in recent months, and the social and economic impacts of this global health crisis have been profound. Sadly, as is often the case, children are among those who have been hardest hit as the virus has swept around the globe.
An entire generation has had their education disrupted due to school closures: at the peak of the first wave, around 1.6 billion children and young people were locked out of the classroom. Even today, over 500 million have still not resumed their education.
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WFP is fully committed to working with our partners to ensure that no child, regardless of where they live, goes to school hungry – or worse, doesn’t go to school at all. After the turmoil of recent months, we must seize the opportunity to start building the better world we all want to see. It is time to work together, in partnership, to achieve it.
David Beasley
Executive Director
World Food Programme