Extend school feeding program to our level - JHS pupils to government

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The pupils of Weweso M/A JHS in the Oforikrom constituency of Ashanti Region have appealed to the government to extend the school feeding program to the Junior High School level.

According to the pupil, they feel neglected by the government for not allowing them to be beneficiaries of the program, unlike the erstwhile president Kuffour Administration when all JHS pupils were made beneficiaries .

"This government is not dealing it well with us. President Kuffour during his administration made all pupils including those at the primary level and JHS level to have launch through the school feeding program, but this government has failed to imitate that move". They cried.

Some of them in an interview said, they are really suffering to cater for themselves in school, as the monies given to them is not enough to take them through the day, since they are charged with some stationary bills which they pay from the little money given to them by their parents.

One of them who spoke with Kumasi based Agyenkwa FM reporter, Obaapa Akosua Nyamekye on condition of anonymity said, " I am only given Ghc 5 for school everyday and it is not enough to cater for my day because our teachers sometimes make us pay for some stationary fees unexpectedly".

They noted that the teachers sometimes pass backdoor to eat some of the food, and for that matter they, (the teachers) have refused to speak on their behalf.

They have therefore called on the government to consider extending the program to their level to ease stress on them.

The Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP) has was implemented in 2005 in the context of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Program (CAADP) Pillar III, and in response to the first and second Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and achieving universal primary education.
 
Over the period of implementation, the basic idea of the program has been to provide children in public primary schools and kindergartens with one hot nutritious meal, prepared from locally grown foodstuffs, on every school-going day.
 
The broad and specific policy objectives of the program were to improve school enrolment, attendance and retention among pupils in the most deprived communities in Ghana as a strategy.

 

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