COLOMBO, Oct. 28 -- Global fashion brand Michael Kors has donated US$2.7 million to support the wellbeing of schoolchildren and local farmers in Sri Lanka, through the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

The contribution, made under Michael Kors' long-running 'Watch Hunger Stop' campaign, will bolster Sri Lanka's national school meals program and help expand the Home-Grown School Feeding (HGSF) initiative, the WFP said in a statement.

The funding will enable the WFP to extend its home-grown school feeding program from eight to ten districts, ensuring that 250,000 children receive nutritious meals daily over the next three years.

In addition to providing meals, the project will also support 1,500 local farmers and caterers by sourc...