[ 2017-01-30 ]

The GSFP currently covers over 1.6 million school children.

1.4m new children to go on School Feeding Programme
Women, Gender and Social Protection
Minister-designate, Otiko Afisah Djaba, has
announced that government will increase enrolments
onto the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) by
1.4 million.

The new enrolments will take the total number of
school children on the social intervention
programme to about 3 million.

Otiko Djaba told the Appointments Committee of
Parliament,“The Ghana School Feeding Programme
currently covers over 1.6milion school children;
government intends to push up the number
significantly with an additional 1.4 million.”

The (GSFP) was introduced by the erstwhile John
Agyekum Kuffour-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) in
2005 with the aim of improving school enrolment,
attendance and retention as well as to alleviate
short-term hunger and malnutrition.

The programme has however been faced with
criticisms owing the delays in the payment of
arrears owed to caterers and its associated hold
back in implementation.

But the sector minister-designate has assured that
monies owed caterers would soon be paid to curtail
undue delays in the running of the programme.

Source - thebftonline.com

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