December 8,2009
(Posted by CAAI News Media)
The charity Catholic Relief Services (CRS) has three applications pending with the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program. The McGovern-Dole program, run by the US Department of Agriculture, provides funding to charities for school feeding in developing countries.
Some organizations that have received McGovern-Dole funding in the past are World Vision, the United Nations World Food Programme and Mercy Corps. The three countries which CRS is planning school feeding are Cambodia, Cameroon and Niger. The McGovern-Dole grants are expected to be announced shortly.
The United States Congress allocates funding for the McGovern-Dole program. Each year most school feeding applications by charities like CRS are denied since not enough funding is available. This year Congress is allocating around 209 million for McGovern-Dole. In past years the funding level has been near 100 million. By comparsion to another aspect of foreign policy, it is estimated that the U.S. spent 52 billion dollars in 2008 on nuclear weapons programs.
see FY10 McGovern-Dole Appropriations Letter (to President Obama from Members of Congress), March 5, 2009 (Members of Congress ask President Obama to increase funding for the McGovern-Dole global school lunch program)
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