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Feed Minds, Change Lives: School Feeding, the Millennium development Goals and Girls' Empowerment

Feed Minds, Change Lives: School Feeding, the Millennium development Goals and Girls' Empowerment

School feeding contributes to the education and well-being of children. A hungry child does not grow, cannot learn as well and faces many health risks in the future. School feeding can bring children into school and out of hunger. School feeding responds directly to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) related to hunger and poverty (MDG 1), education (MDG 2) and gender equality (MDG 3), and indirectly to child mortality and maternal health (MDGs 4 and 5).