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Government To Feed 200, 000 Pupils
Government through the Ministry of Education in partnership with the World Food Programme (W-F-P) and the National Food and Nutrition Commission of Zambia (N-F-N-C), has embarked on a seven hundred and eighty six, five hundred kwacha pilot programme dubbed ‘Home Grown School Feeding Programme (H-G-S-F)’ aimed at feeding school going children with on-site meals for better human development.
National Food and Nutrition Commission (N-F-N-C) Acting Deputy Director, Mofu Musonda, says the duration of the pilot project is for twelve months that will see more than two hundred thousand school going children from Grade one to Grade nine benefit.
He says Home Grown School Feeding Programme (H-G-S-F) programme is a (NEPAD) initiative that links school feeding to local agriculture.
Mr. Mofu further adds that this model is designed to stimulate agricultural production through the purchase of locally produced food for schools.
He notes that the provision of food at school will attract children to be going to school and keep them there to complete their studies.
Posted by Editor
on September 7, 2013. Filed under LATEST NEWS.
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PF scared shit
September 7, 2013 at 7:29 pm
Good show NFNC and WFP. Let’s hope this program won’t end at pilot. It needs to be scaled up if it records success
bodybuilder
September 7, 2013 at 9:14 pm
Every little helps.
kakolwe
September 8, 2013 at 6:58 am
Problem is that this will most likely end up feeding children from well-to-do families leaving the disadvantaged rural child in limbo!
CALLED WISE
September 8, 2013 at 11:50 am
Good plan if well set, well implimented, well followed up.
MAFUPA YOKOYOKO
September 8, 2013 at 2:58 pm
E pulogulamu iyi… Progreive Future (PF). Bushe kakolwe wayakwisa? nakufuluka bwela.
Special Lungu
September 8, 2013 at 11:36 pm
Addition of another cost when we have meagre earnings and are failing to maintain schools and tertiary education institutions. By the way Botswana had a similar programme which they were reviewing for possible halting because of the massive cash requirements. Those who remember the early years of Kaunda’s rule milk and other supplements were being given to pupils in primary schools. This was later stopped. Let us avoid merry go rounds when implementing developement they are costly.