Tetra Pak further expands its school feeding programs to five this year


Dated: 5 October 2007

Packaging supplier, Tetra Pak, will be involved in three new school feeding programmes by the end of 2007, in addition to those started in Vietnam and Pakistan earlier this year.

Through public and private partnerships, the company provides school milk to 43 million children with 40 percent of them in developing countries.

It also supplies dairy industry expertise, know-how in packaging and processing solutions as well as recycling, advice and practical implementation support to world school milk programmes.

Studies have shown that school feeding programs have resulted in more families sending children to school while school milk stimulates economic demand for milk in the local dairy industry.

With other partnerships in countries like China, Japan and Bangladesh, Tetra Pak expects to distribute a total of 5.3 billion packages to children this year.

 
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