KENYA: Food shipment to help school feeding programme

WFP on Monday welcomed the arrival in Mombasa port of a 54,000 mt shipment of maize, valued at US $24 million, as part of a substantial donation by the US government towards the agency's post-drought expanded school feeding programme in Kenya. "This food is not only a meal, but a passport to an education, a future, hopes and dreams," said Esther Ouma, a programme analyst for WFP Kenya. "Giving a nutritious meal to a poor student today is key to helping him or her become a literate, self-reliant adult tomorrow," she added.