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Byline: Kristina Stefanova, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Children line up, waiting their turn for a large spoonful of warm milk to be poured in the cup they clutch in their hands. The scene of school feeding is repeated day after day in poor countries, where rich nations and development organizations provide milk, among other products such as cereals and grains, as food aid.
Former auditor for the World Food Program (WFP), Jessie Mabutas, and the current head of the WFP in Washington, Werner Keine, are familiar with the scene - not just because they see it in their work, but because they were once those children, waiting in line, eyeing the milk, clutching a cup.
"I loved the milk and bread," said Mr. Keine, who grew up in southern Austria after World War II and got a school breakfast and lunch as part of American aid to postwar Europe.
"We would line up like I see children do in my job now," he said. "We would hold our little cup, and there would be milk warmed in a huge pot ... and everyone would line up and hold their little cup, get it filled, get their piece of bread, and off we went."
Mrs. Mabutas recalled the same image a decade later in the Philippines. Each student at her elementary school got milk and cornbread....
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