Help keep 41,000 Bhutanese children in school

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Summary

The UN World Food Program (WFP) supports the Government of Bhutan in it’s commitment to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of achieving Universal Primary Education by 2007. progress reportread updates from the field

How Donors Like You Helped

Thanks to donors like you, a total of $1,745 was raised for this project.

Received $1,745 from 9 donations from people like:

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

WFP provides food and hope for more than 41,000 students in Bhutan. Impeding the ability of many children to attend school is the country’s mountainous terrain, harsh climate and isolated settlements. Proper food storage and preparation is a serious concern in rural schools, where limited space, damp conditions and poor ventilation is common. Inadequate storage and cooking facilities, improper preparation and lack of clean water can often result in a loss of valuable food.

Activities

WFP seeks to improve sanitation, kitchens and storage facilities in rural schools by installing permanent latrines, showers, fuel efficient stoves, and kitchen and storage facilities.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $1,745

Funding Information

This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Progress Report" tab as they become available.

Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $1,745.  The original project funding goal was $100,000.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

With proper facilities, WFP can ensure valuable food is not wasted due to improper storage or preparation, allowing the agency to provide food to more students, enable increased boarding and encourage rural enrollment.

Project Message

By focusing our efforts on providing food in schools, we increase the likelihood that children will receive an education, a critical ingredient to bettering their lives.
- Gerald Daly, World Food Program Country Director in Bhutan

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Meredith Slater,
Development Associate, Friends of the WFP
1819 L Street, NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202-530-1694
Email:

Project Sponsor

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Organization

Friends of the World Food Program Logo Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L St. NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202.530.1694
http://www.friendsofwfp.org

Learn more about Friends of the World Food Program and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Bhutan and can also be found under Education.

For more information about Bhutan, read the Human Development Report on Bhutan or the Wikipedia entry for Bhutan.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 15, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 11, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Update from Bhutan

By Meredith Slater - Development Assistant, Friends of the WFP, August 15, 2007 05:11 PM

During the course of this program, the World Food Program (WFP) has concentrated its efforts in Bhutan on school-feeding, with a focus on increasing school enrollment and attendance in rural areas, particularly for girls, and reducing drop-out rates. Yet, obstacles such as long distances to walk to school (many primary schoolchildren walk up to two hours each way); unaffordable costs of school uniforms; reliance on children for farm labor and household income; lack of interest in education; and the perception that girls’ education is less important than boys’, present challenges to such programs.

Nonetheless, thanks to donors like you, the latest World Food Program assessment has reported that Bhutan is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goal of Universal Primary Education by 2015. Since 2005 alone, primary education enrollment rates in Bhutan have increased, and are now at 80% for boys and girls.

Moving forward, the new focus of WFP assistance in Bhutan from 2008-2012 will be on primary education and capacity-building of government counterparts. The Royal Government of Bhutan will be taking on an increased role in the school feeding program as part of a transition phase to full government support.

Please click below to see a photo from Bhutan! Where school feeding programs are offered, enrollment and attendance rates increase significantly, particularly for girls.
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