USDA program commits to feeding about 400,000 kids in Afghanistan and Haiti

The McGovern-Dole Program is administered by USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service, which has fed over  22 million children since 2002, just announced that they will be sending 11,000 tons of rice, vegetable oil, yellow peas and lentils to feed hungry children in Afghanistan and Haiti. The program was founded to 'promote education, child development, and food security for some of the world’s poorest children. It provides for donations of U.S. agricultural products, as well as financial and technical assistance, for school feeding and maternal and child nutrition projects in low-income countries'. Hey, here's a good chunk of our tax money being very well spent!

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