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A free school meal is a school meal provided to a child or young person during a school break at no cost. Very few countries provide these to all school children regardless of their ability to pay but many governments in developing countries especially are increasingly implementing free school meals to improve attendance rates and reduce malnutrition.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.wfp.org/school-meals )〕 == Global picture == Sweden, Finland and Estonia are among the few countries that provide free school meals to all pupils in compulsory education regardless of their ability to pay. Free school meals are available to those who are eligible, from lower socioeconomic backgrounds in other high-income countries (with the exception of Australia where free school meals are not available) although in Scotland free school meals are available at the discretion of individual education departments of local authorities and in Spain, some children, but not many (figures not available) are entitled to free school meals (again, information on Germany and Canada was not obtained). Reduced price meals are also available to those who need a degree of assistance with costs in the Republic of Ireland, France, Italy, Hong Kong, Japan and the U.S.A.〔 In India, the National Programme of Nutritional Support to Primary Education (NP-NSPE) scheme, deployed nationwide by 1998, 104 million children were covered in 1.16 million Schools during 2013-14. School feeding is also available in major South American countries such as Brazil, Chile and other low-income countries, but each program varies widely from country to country in design, implementation, and evaluation. Beyond improvements in access to food, schemes for School feeding in low-income countries also have a positive impact on nutritional status, gender equity, and educational status, each of which contributes to improving overall levels of country and human development. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Free school meal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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