The UN World Food Program (WFP) provides a daily school meal to ~500,000 school children in Cambodia. The main objective of the school meal program is to increase school attendance. Although the school meal provides salt fortified with iodine, and vegetable oil fortified with vitamin A, the school meal provides an excellent opportunity to improve micronutrient status of school children by providing them with rice fortified with vitamins and minerals such as zinc, vitamin A, iron, folic acid and vitamin B12. This is likely to reduce the prevalence of anemia in school children and improve health and school performance. Anemia is a major problem in school children in Cambodia. A recent study by WFP showed that more than half of the school children were anemic.