Children are among the most valuable—and vulnerable—members of every society. Food for Peace programs have made substantial improvements in children’s nutrition and saved millions from starvation, stunted growth and malnutrition.

A recent review shows these programs have been reducing chronic undernourishment by 2.4 percent per year. They also reduce the number of underweight children and help them sustain more normal body weights by providing rations and school meals, inoculating infants, monitoring maternal and child health, and supplying vitamin supplements.

Other Food for Peace programs encourage children to attend school and have been credited with raising girls’ attendance significantly in several countries.

“Food is strength, and food is peace, and food is freedom, and food is a helping hand to people around the world whose good will and friendship we want.” President John F. Kennedy
Food For Educaton Hungry children cannot concentrate in school. As part of one of the many school feeding programs Food for Peace supports worldwide, this young girl in Tanzania receives a midday meal to enable her to benefit fully from her lessons. ▶	School Feeding ◀ Pre-school age children receive a meal at an early childhood development center, funded by Food for Peace in India. Here, while they eat their meal, their mothers learn about childhood nutrition and hygiene, in order to keep them healthy and disease-free.

School Attendance ▲ This school in Ghana was constructed in part from resources from Food for Peace. Prenatal Training ▲ An expectant mother in Peru learns about prenatal nutrition, as part of Food for Peace’s effort to improve the health of both mothers and children.

Sanitation ▲ Clean water and proper hygiene reduce the incidence of disease, which in turn improves childhood health and nutrition. These children are washing their hands in clean water provided through a Food for Peace activity in Angola.

	Measuring Growth ▲ Food for Peace programs monitor child health by tracking growth and weight, as in these pictures from Peru and Honduras. Children who do not grow as expected receive extra food to supplement their diet.
Supplements ▲ Food for Peace programs also teach mothers to use food already available in communities to improve their children’s nutrition. This girl in Mozambique is drinking sweet potato juice, which contains high levels of vitamin A, which her mother has prepared for her.
	Health Training ▲ This volunteer in Mozambique is using the information she learned in Food for Peace-supported training to teach her community about providing adequate nutrition to children.

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