They cost around 100 each and Unicef is undertaking to make up and distribute 42,000 in Iraq in September ready for the start of the new school year.
The basic contents are: pens, scissors, crayons, chalk, sticky tape, exercise books, eraser and slates with white pencils. The packs for Iraq also include specially designed mine-awareness posters so the teachers can educate their pupils about unexploded ammunition.
Feed The Children is working with the World Food Programme and has been asked by the UN to set up a programme to feed 3.5 million primary school children.
Feed the Children's Ian Lethbridge says, 'Schools go back in mid-September.
The UN is planning to give them powdered milk and we have been asked to supply high protein biscuits. We are hoping to produce them in Baghdad.
This way we can support a local factory and put money into the economy.
'One metric tonne of high protein biscuits, on a pallet a metre high, wide and deep costs about $450. Working on one child having three biscuits a day it provides a day's ration for thousands of children.
'The biscuits are made of wheat flour, soya or chick peas, milk powder, a small amount of sugar and added vitamins.'
