Venezuela’s government has reached a deal with the United Nations’ food program, for the international agency to directly provide meals for children in the South American country.
The World Food Programme said its goal is to reach 185,000 students by the end of the year and 1.5 million by the end of the 2022-2023 school year.
According to the World Food Programme One third of the population in the South American country does not get enough to eat and on average, Venezuelans have lost 28 pounds because they have to skip meals, per an academic survey of living conditions.
School children have been acutely affected by the food scarcity and high food prices in Venezuela with some having fainted or even died from hunger when they try to forage for meals.
Meanwhile, Nicolás Maduro’s regime refused to take food aid for years, trying to prop up its own food subsidy program, called CLAP which has been denounced by the U.S. Treasury Department as a front for profiteering from food imports.
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