{"id":246127,"date":"2026-10-01T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-learners-get-smaller-meals-after-trumps-u-s-aid-cuts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T10:00:47","slug":"lesotho-learners-get-smaller-meals-after-trumps-u-s-aid-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-learners-get-smaller-meals-after-trumps-u-s-aid-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho Learners Get Smaller Meals After Trump&#8217;s U.S. Aid Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\"><em> The Lesotho government has taken over the school feeding programme resulting in less food <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lesotho&#8217;s government stepped in after US funding for school meals was cut, but GroundUp found pupils at two Semonkong primary schools are receiving smaller portions and less nutritious food.<\/li>\n<li>Delivery records show maize-meal supplied for lunch at St Leonard Primary has fallen by 54% per pupil, while cooking oil supplies have more than halved. Cooks are earning less and being paid late.<\/li>\n<li>The education&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610010098.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lesotho government has taken over the school feeding programme resulting in less food Lesotho&#8217;s government stepped in after US funding for school meals was cut, but GroundUp found pupils at two Semonkong primary schools are receiving smaller portions and less nutritious food. Delivery records show maize-meal supplied for lunch at St Leonard Primary has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":246128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,7828,7210,6139,4717,1407,7835,257,15990,254,9387,2282],"class_list":["post-246127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-cuts","tag-learners","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-meals","tag-news","tag-smaller","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trumps","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}