In some countries, $35 can provide a child with a school lunch every day for a year.
And fewer hunger pains are the least of it. According to research by the United Nations' World Food Program, providing a school meal not only dramatically improves the childrens’ classroom
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performance, but providing a school meal can increase enrollment a staggering 300 percent – which directly affects girl children who then wait longer to marry, and have almost half as many children.
Inspired by her work as honorary spokeswoman for the WFP in the developing countries she visited– including Guatemala, Cambodia, Chad and Honduras – model Lauren Bush decided to put the power of fashion to good use. "I was traveling, taking pictures and doing what I could to help," Bush recently told WWD. "But it just didn't seem like enough. I wanted to do more." So she designed a practical and reversible burlap & muslin "Feed" bag tote which retails for $60, of which $34 goes directly to the WFP. "It's meant to be a multipurpose bag that looks really good and is eco-friendly."
Available exclusively at Amazon.com, the bags are the latest initiative by the WFP which hooked up a staggering 16 million children worldwide with school meals in 2006 as part of their goal of tending to the 300 million children around the world that suffer chronic hunger.
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