World Food Programme says it will supply food to 185,000 Venezuelan children


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  • Tuesday, 20 Apr 2021

CARACAS (Reuters) -The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday it had reached a deal to supply food to Venezuelan schools, as WFP director David Beasley visits Caracas for meetings with officials including President Nicolas Maduro.

The program will reach 185,000 children in the crisis-stricken country this year, and aims to expand to some 1.5 million by the end of the 2022-2023 school year, the WFP said in a statement. Child malnutrition https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-malnutrition has increased in Venezuela as the once-prosperous country's economy collapsed.

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