Some 850,000 students in Ethiopia, mainly from elementary schools are currently benefiting from the school feeding programs being implemented in different parts of the country. Started initially by the World Food Program partial funding in Southern Region of Ethiopia a few years ago, the program is now taken over by the regional governments of Ethiopia. A recent study on the implementation of school feeding in Southern Region of Ethiopia suggested strongly recommend scaling up the program in other food insecure areas. In Africa, a substantial proportion of the school children suffer from malnutrition, are stunted, or experience short-term hunger. In 2015, about 31% of the school children were undernourished out of which 19.6% were stunted, 15.9% underweight and 14.0% wasted.

Source: Ethiopian News January 09, 2019 13:24 UTC