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For China’s ‘Left-Behind Kids,’ A Free Lunch

NPR’s Louisa Lim reports on journalist Deng Fei’s efforts to provide nutritious lunches for schoolchildren in China’s countryside. The children are caught on the wrong side of China’s wealth divide: most have at least one parent who has moved away to work, some are several inches shorter than the urban average due to malnutrition, and there is inequality even in the program