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===School meals===
[[File:School meals WFP.jpg|thumb|A child eats a WFP school meal in Lao. Photo: WFP/Vilakhone Sipaseuth]]
School meals encourage parents in vulnerable families to send their children to school, rather than work. They have proved highly beneficial in areas including education and gender equality, health and nutrition, social protection, local economies and agriculture.<ref>{{cite web |title=The impact of school feeding programmes |url=https://docs.wfp.org/api/documents/WFP-0000102338/download/?_ga=2.168978918.694102881.1604921119-1516168960.1603989980 |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=6 January 2021}}</ref> WFP works with partners to ensure school feeding is part of integrated school health and nutrition programmes, which include services such as malaria control, menstrual hygiene and guidance on sanitation and hygiene.<ref>{{cite web |title=Joint Advocacy Brief - Stepping up effective school health and nutrition |url=https://www.wfp.org/publications/joint-advocacy-brief-stepping-effective-school-health-and-nutrition |website=wfp.org |date=19 May 2020 |publisher=World Food Programme |access-date=11 January 2021}}</ref>