Overview
- Peru’s audit office said 128 schools in six Lima districts have no service from PAE, the Midis school food program, leaving 27,568 early and primary students without meals.
- The lapse includes 12 schools that stopped receiving on-site hot meals for 3,391 students and 116 schools that lost ready-to-eat breakfasts for 24,177 students since March 17.
- PAE ended contracts with several suppliers for service failures or causes not attributable to the parties, which cut off deliveries.
- The Contraloría said the program’s rules set no firm timelines for emergency response, which has slowed efforts to restart food service.
- Supreme resolutions in El Peruano named Giovana Díaz Revilla as program head, replacing Fernando Parra del Carpio.