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Thousands of kilometres from Bangladesh, my 82-year-old grandmother has figured out how to order her groceries online with curbside pickup from Texas-favourite supermarket H-E-B.

Every day, 370 million children around the world receive food at school provided by their governments. Governments invest in school meals because they are a powerful tool in efforts to reach Zero Hunger, helping to ensure every child has access to education, health and nutrition.

The lockdown of East Ghouta for the past four years has left 400,000 people cut off from a regular supply of food, medicines and other essentials. Their bid for survival worsened this past September when the only remaining supply route into the enclave, the Al Wafideen camp crossing point, was shut down.

Ahmed Ali Jana worked in water supplies before the war broke out in Somalia in 1991. One day in 1994, a grenade exploded in front of him and he lost his arms and one eye. It also killed his two children, totally changing the course of his life. As the war reached its peak, Ahmed saw almost the entire neighbourhood in Mogadishu abandoning their homes one by one.