1 FEED bag = 1 child fed for 1 school year

The FEED bag is designed to raise awareness and funds for hungry children and to help them get into school and out of hunger. Each FEED bag sold will provide a school year of meals for one child in need and give them the hope of an education and a regular meal. Whether you tote your FEED bag to school, work, play, or shop, remember that your bag helped to FEED and educate one child for one school year.

Did you know?

• Hunger and malnutrition are the #1 risk to global health, killing more people than AIDS, malaria, and TB combined
• Every 5 seconds a child dies because he or she is hungry
• In 2005 WFP fed 21.7 million children in 74 countries
• Research shows that free school lunches can increase attendance rates by 100% and boost academic performance

Food for Education is an umbrella term encompassing a number of WFP activities in which food aid is used to promote basic education in food-insecure areas. The largest component is the WFP school feeding program; other program promote adult literacy or pre-school education or use food aid as an incentive for teachers.

WFP Food for Education in numbers:

• 400 million = The number of hungry children in the world.
• 115 million = The number of school-aged children who do not go to school.
• 62 million = The number of girls who do not attend school.
• 50 million = The number of hungry children who are currently not
  receiving any form of assistance.

US $20 = The annual cost of WFP's Food for Education program per child.

10 US cents = The average cost of buying a school meal for a child in the developing world.