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More than 300 million children in the world suffer from chronic hunger and about half of them don't go to school. Some 170 million of them go to school on empty stomachs and don't receive any food during the day, while 130 million don't attend school at all. The United Nations World Food Programme says the twin problems of malnutrition and education can be solved if they're addressed simultaneously.