The figure rises to about 27.2 per cent in the North-central region of Nigeria, which Abuja is part of, according to a UNICEF study.
The programme’s goal is to also increase the enrolment rate by mopping up the huge number of out-of-school children in Nigeria and also tackling early year malnutrition.The programme, in its third year, was introduced in 2016. The federal government started the Home Grown School Feeding and Health Programme based on the Universal Basic Education Act 2014.
But in May 2014, the federal government convened a National Advocacy Meeting with support from Imperial College London’s Partnership for Child Development , the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , the World Bank Group, and the Vitol Foundation to develop a roadmap for implementing the HGSF programme across Nigeria.
The ruling All Progressives Congress boasts that the scheme is widely recognised for its multiple benefits for schoolchildren, particularly in low and middle-income countries. Baria Lawal, a mother of seven who has none of her children in school, said: “sending children to school is too expensive, all I want is a help because I cannot afford it.”
Meanwhile, the chairman of displaced persons in Angwan Hausawa, Umar Muhammed, said the issue of out-of-school children could be eliminated through assistance from the government. “They didn’t start it. They said they were on it. Since January they said bring data, but we are yet to hear anything,” she saidthe government feeds public school pupils with 594 cattle,138,000 chickens, 6.8 million eggs and 83 metric tons of fish every week.
“I wouldn’t know, we were only inaugurated August last year but the FCT was operating other components of the NSIP,” she said.“It was only August last year we came on board. And so by that August last year, we came on board. By October, we went to all the six area councils to do community sensitisation. Last week of November, we started the screening of the vendors. So by first week of December, we were through with the screening and then we now came back to the office to do paperwork.
“We are not dealing with individual farmers, we went through their associations. For example, the poultry and bakers’ association have been contacted,” she said.When asked why a federal government project is yet to be implemented in FCT, the cluster head, National School Feeding Programme, Abimbola Adesanmi, said ”the federal capital territory administration is yet to complete the criteria.”
Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)
This is how the hope for the future is truncked. God have mercy
Nes Lebul
I thought wailers and herdsmedia said the programme is a scam? Hmmm so the programme is actually working
You must wake up Mr. President
O! The necessary evils
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