Comments on: A question of priority: Hunger or Climate Change? http://www.peripheries.org/2008/06/04/a-question-of-priority-hunger-or-climate-change/ Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:39:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Roger http://www.peripheries.org/2008/06/04/a-question-of-priority-hunger-or-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Roger Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:19:30 +0000 http://www.rogertatoud.com/blog/?p=6#comment-3 An interesting development that should really make us re-assess our priorities. The China Post reports that in Cambodia the World Food Programme will stop providing free breakfast in school because of the soaring price of food. A corollary is that it will be difficult to convince parents that their kids should still attend school as this programme was a strong incentive for them. Cambodian kids enjoy last free breakfast as U.N. food aid ends By Ker Munthit, AP PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Students at a rural elementary school in Cambodia enjoyed their last free breakfasts in class after the United Nations World Food Program stopped supplying rice and other food because of soaring global prices. http://tinyurl.com/53znc7 An interesting development that should really make us re-assess our priorities. The China Post reports that in Cambodia the World Food Programme will stop providing free breakfast in school because of the soaring price of food. A corollary is that it will be difficult to convince parents that their kids should still attend school as this programme was a strong incentive for them.

Cambodian kids enjoy last free breakfast as U.N. food aid ends
By Ker Munthit, AP

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Students at a rural elementary school in Cambodia enjoyed their last free breakfasts in class after the United Nations World Food Program stopped supplying rice and other food because of soaring global prices.

http://tinyurl.com/53znc7

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