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04/23/2008: "Cambodian Kids Get No Free Breakfast as Rice Aid Cut"

April 23 (Bloomberg) -- Thirteen-year-old Pin Oudam gets a free breakfast of rice, fish and yellow split peas every morning at his school in Kampong Speu, Cambodia's poorest province. Next week he won't.

The World Food Program cut off rice deliveries to 1,344 Cambodian schools last month after prices doubled and suppliers defaulted on contracts. Schools will run out of food by May 1, depriving about 450,000 children of meals, the WFP estimates.

[ Every day there is some news about imminent famine around the world. They are born because of food aid and when it stops they die. ]

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