the third is to allow children under the age of to have free access to school canteens in districts where the monetary poverty rate is higher than the national average using a government subsidy covered by foreign aid equivalent to of initial gdp the final policy response scenario consists of distributing cash transfers to households with poor children the total amount of the transfer is equal to of cameroon s beforecrisis gdp and is supported by international aid moreover it leads to a sizeable fall in these two dimensions of poverty compared to their levels in the absence of the crisis