WFP starts handover of school feeding program to Laos

Jose Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, speaks at a handover ceremony of school feeding program in Oudomxay, Laos, May 15, 2019. The WFP has handed over its school feeding program in more than 500 schools to the Lao government. A ceremony was held on Wednesday at the Bor village school in Oudomxay, some 310 km north of Lao capital Vientiane, where the WFP will provide 40,000 plates of food per year to the school's 200 students. (Xinhua/Pocky Chanthaphaphone)