Korean government aids nutritious food to Lao students

(KPL) The Korean government has provided 392 tonnes of nutritious food aid worth US$500,000 to malnourished students in rural and remote areas in Laos.
The aid package is made up of maize flour, soymilk, vitamins, white rice and other items.
The foodstuff would be distributed to 50,000 students in 417 schools in the northern Oudomsay province, where they have suffered from malnutrition. The handover ceremony took place at KM17 Tha-ngone warehouse, Saythany district, Vientiane Capital, on 15 January.
The aid was presented by Mr. Park Jae-Hyun, Korean Ambassador to Laos, to Mr Lytou Bouaphao, Deputy Minister of Education, in presence of Country Representative of Food and Agriculture Organisation to Laos, and both sides’ officials concerned.

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