Lift a Life Foundation

Northern Uganda, Palabek Gem, October 2005 Children at a primary school in Palabek Gem, a camp for internally displaced people in Kitgum northern Uganda, receive food that is part of the WFP school feeding program. Palabek Gem is home to over 13,000 people and is one of the many camps in northern Uganda. During the 18 year long civil war with the Lord's Resistance Army over 1.8 million people have been internally displaced. Photo:WFP/Vanessa Vick

WFP/ Vanessa Vick

In 2015 World Food Program USA and the Lift a Life Foundation announced a groundbreaking $3 million grant over three years to support school meals in the Karamoja region of Uganda. This grant—the largest international grant in the foundation’s history—will provide nourishing meals to more than 32,000 children in 161 schools through the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), the largest provider of school meals on the planet.

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