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MAURITIUS (date unknown). School food programme

Date unknown. Camp Fouquereaux Primary School, Floréal, Mauritius. Children drinking milk and eating their snacks in the playground of the Primary School at Floréal.

01/01/1970

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Background Information Primary school Feeding and Feeding of Vulnerable Groups. In the small Indian Ocean islands of Mauritius and Rdrigez, a mixed Indian/Chinese/African population of 400,000 people lives in an area of 1,865 square km. The economy is largely based on the sugar crop which represents 945% of visible exports. In the poorer areas, where there is much seasonal and permanent unemployment, malnutrition and ill health amongst children is a serious problem. The UN/FAO World Food Programme(WFP) has established two projects to help the Government to improve nutrition standards. One is to provide 20,000 pregnant and nursing mothers and 50,000 preschool children with a daily ration of dried skim milk and wheat flour at a total cost to WFP during this three-year project of $2,73 million. The second is a school-feeding project for five years during which a daily snack of bread and cheese, dried fruits and a glass of milk is given to some 124,000 primary school children at a cost to WFP of $5,565,000. This includes most of the island's school population.