Nearly 21,000 children in North Korea received calcium-enriched rolls as a part of the Adventist Development and Relief Agency’s (ADRA) Kindergarten Nutrition Project.  ADRA’s bakery school feeding program in North Korea has produced and distributed 9.9 million calcium-enriched rolls in its second year of operation.

To produce the bread, the World Food Programme (WFP) supplied wheat flour, vegetable oil, dried skim milk and sugar while ADRA Switzerland provided yeast and salt.  The local government organized transportation of the rolls. Each week, nearly 250,000 rolls were distributed.

According to the WFP, malnutrition in children in North Korea under the age of seven has improved over the years, but is still high.  A final survey performed by the Flood Damage Rehabilitation Committee in all children in kindergartens in June showed that the level of malnutrition at the end of the project was below 2 percent.