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One-egg-a-day scheme improves pupils' diets

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2011-05-30 19:05


One-egg-a-day scheme improves pupils' diets
Students wait to get their free eggs for breakfast in the canteen at Shidian Central Primary School, Haiyuan, a town known for water scarcity and poor agriculture outputs, in Zhongwei city of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region on May 25, 2011. The school started a scheme to provide one egg a day to its 538 students with 8.22 million yuan ($1.26 million) fiscal support from local government this year. Local government has allocated 46.88 million ($7.23 million) this year to expand the free-breakfast programme across the town, with an estimated 375,000 beneficiaries among rural primary schools over Haiyuan town.[Photo/CFP]

One-egg-a-day scheme improves pupils' diets

Two students carry boiled eggs from the canteen to serve classmates at Shidian Central Primary School, Haiyuan town, Zhongwei city of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui autonomous region, May 25, 2011. [Photo/CFP]


 

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