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Perched on a verdant hill, overlooking an evergreen lake, one couldn’t ask for a better setting for a residential school. But the pandemic forced the sprawling campus of Heritage Girls School, around 20 kilometres north of Udaipur, Rajasthan, to remain shuttered for the most part of last year. Although students from across the country attended their online classes, almost every day, from the comfort of their homes, life was simply not the same. However, there was much rejoicing among the stud...

Haiti: WFP provides a daily hot meal to 237,000 children in schools such as this one in the town of Jeremie in GrandAnse. Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli “Missing out on nutritious school meals is jeopardizing the futures of millions of the world’s poorest children—we risk losing a whole generation,” said WFP’s Executive Director David Beasley. “We must support governments to safely reopen schools and start feeding these children again. For many, the nutritious meal they get in school...

Daily Monitor Thursday February 04 2021 When Covid-19 caused closure of schools  globally, including in Uganda last year, many school-going children had to miss out on school meals that they had relied upon for essential nutrition. The director of the school meals division at the World Food Programm, Carmen Burbano, referred to this mass closure as “probably the largest catastrophe in the education systems of our lifetime,” without the certainty of ever returning to the classroom. Nearly 1...

  United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Office of Research – Innocenti and the World Food Programme (WFP) report indicates that nutrition crisis looms as globally more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of COVID-19 pandemic. The report, which was made available to the Ghana News Agency by UNICEF, attributed the situation to schools’ closures since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, dubbed “COVID-19: Missing More Than a Classroom” notes that 370 million ...

Haiti: WFP provides a daily hot meal to 237,000 children in schools such as this one in the town of Jeremie in Grand’Anse. Photo: WFP/Alexis Masciarelli “Missing out on nutritious school meals is jeopardizing the futures of millions of the world’s poorest children—we risk losing a whole generation,” said WFP’s Executive Director David Beasley. “We must support governments to safely reopen schools and start feeding these children again. For many, the nutritious meal they get in sch...

Global nutrition crisis looms for hungry children locked out of school, charities warn Around 1.6 billion pupils have been hit by school closures, with 370 million missing out essential meals 28 January 2021 • 8:00am Schoolchildren from Ankileisoke Primary School eat lunch, offered by the World Food Programmes Under-nutrition Prevention Programme, in the Amboasary-South district of southern Madagascar Credit:  RIJASOLO / AFP Vulnerable children around the world are being put at increased ris...

Do you remember where you were on April 9, 2017? There is only one correct answer. Former Thunder guard Russell Westbrook’s desperation 3-pointer at the buzzer not only gave Oklahoma City the win in Denver. It also likely assured Westbrook the NBA’s Most Valuable Player award after he logged his 42nd triple-double of the 2016-17 season. April 9, 2017 is also the last night the Thunder defeated the Nuggets on their home floor. Among OKC’s defeats include a similarly improbable game-winning...