“World Food” suspends school meals from May 11 …
Amman – The World Food Program revealed its decision to stop the provision of school health foods provided within the structure of the National School Nutrition Program, from May 11, 2025 to the end of the current semester.
This decision comes in a report on its activities in Jordan, due to the lack of “financial support”, and this opinion will affect 90,000 students in 476 schools depending on the daily nutritious diet in communities.
This will affect the livelihood of 250 weak women working in social kitchens, new products and local bakeries that provide workers with about 300 small farms and income sources and a wide domestic food distribution chain.
The project emphasized that its priorities are currently focusing on obtaining adequate funding in Jordan to meet the emergency food requirements in Jordan, stating that the current resources for refugees in camps and local communities are “insufficient” to compensate for refugees in camps and local communities.
Million 35 million is required for the project to determine the priority to meet the basic needs of the refugees until the end of 2025.
In April, the food program provided monthly food aid due to the lack of funds at a lower level ($ 21 per month) for 277,000 refugees in camps and local communities.
Until last month, 60,500 Syrian refugees returned to their country, of which 30,000 received food assistance from the food scheme, so the project stopped its monthly food aid to these refugees (30 thousand refugees) representing 10 % of the total help.
The project was provided last month within the National School Nutrition Program for 430 thousand students in camps and local communities, dates and high -rich biscuits and health foods for 90 thousand students in local communities.
As part of the technical assistance provided to the National Aid Fund (NAF), the Food Scheme supported the Food Scheme Fund to verify the data of about 2,300 families through field home visits.
These visits are aimed at receiving the help of registered families and informing the National Assistant Fund to its decision on their inclusion in the cash assistance scheme.
As part of his actions in the field of climate change, as part of his actions in the field, the Food Scheme introduced a field innovation school program to the north of the last month, with the launch of a field innovation school program, targeting the most vulnerable groups of Mafrak, Irfit, Jerash and Ajlaun, which has crossed the north of the last month. Based on the inventions, the Jordan Valley and the Mafrak.
In response to water shortages and the slopes of the soil related to the climate related to the Jordanian farmers, the project launched three innovative agricultural solutions: folding fabric to improve water storage, folding fabric tanks to improve the effectiveness of the use of water, and to improve quick irrigation and soil health and crop flexibility to improve soil health and crop flexibility.
In April, the government approved an organization to transfer the Prime Minister’s Food Security Council to the Supreme Food Security Council, as this achievement would improve national coordination and strategic planning in accordance with the priorities of food security in Jordan.
