The Deputy National Co-ordinator of the School Feeding Programme (SFP), Mr. Francis Yaw Gyarko has said that the SFP will feed 1,400,000 pupils in the primary and kindergarten nationwide next academic year.
Speaking to the Times on Monday, Mr. Yaw Gyarko said that the SFP has been able to feed 656,000 children in the kindergarten and primary schools so far and the SFP authorities and the government has planned to extend the number next academic year in order to reach their target of feeding all the children in the Kindergarten and primary schools in the country.
“About 25% of public schools have been covered so far and it is the target of the School Feeding Programme to feed all the children in the primary and kindergarten schools in the country”, he said.
He said that the programme was meant to feed poor and vulnerable children in public schools especially those in the rural areas.
“The programme was also meant to increase enrolment of children into the public schools and reduce poverty in the rural areas”, he added.
Mr. Gyarko also said that the programme will help boost domestic agriculture in the sense that foods produce in the country will be used to feed the children, saying that this will enable local farmers to get enough capital to farm and also discourage the importation of foreign foods into the country.
Answering a question on whether the School Feeding Programme will be extend to the Junior High School, Mr. Gyarko said that the target of feeding all primary and kindergarten school children has not been achieved, thus, the Programme cannot feed the JHS pupils until it has been able to reach its target.
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