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TNT sends 700 backpacks to school children in Bhutan

Posted November 18th, 2008
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TNT sends 700 backpacks to school children in Bhutan

Several years ago TNT Denmark purchased a large amount of Walk the World backpacks to hand out during the Danish Walk the World events. However, the backpacks were never distributed and merely took up space in the warehouse. Therefore, TNT Denmark decided to send all the backpacks to Bhutan, as they knew that they would do more good there. After a long journey 700 backpacks reached Bhutan in the end of September.

Some of the backpacks have now been handed out to children at WFP’s schools. One school that has benefitted from this is Zham Community Primary School in Eastern Bhutan. This school has a total of 66 students who walk at an average of 2 hours one way to get to school. This school has been identified as a needy school by WFP and the students receive a breakfast and lunch every day from WFP.

Among the beneficiaries is Chimi Wangmo who is six years old. Every day she walks 2 hours and ten minutes to get to and from school on a path where she often meets wild boars that scare her. She was very happy to receive a bag from TNT. This, according to her, will enable her to look after her books and pencils so that she does not lose them.

Ugyen Puntsho, aged 10, leaves home at 6 in the morning to get to school. He has no problem walking in his rubber slippers through the mud and the slippery terrain. He has mastered the “art” thoroughly. He was very happy to receive the bag from TNT.
“Now I do not have to use my gho (traditional Bhutanese male attire) pocket to put my books”, he said.

Chime and Ugyen are glimpses of the 44,000 beneficiaries that WFP assists with the school feeding programme in Bhutan. Most of these students stay in boarding schools since home is too far away and in many cases they walk to school every day…a price that these children have to pay in order to receive an education. School feeding really makes a difference in the lives of these children. The school meals enable the students to come to school and to learn.
 

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