SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME: FG DISTRIBUTES COOKING UTENSILS TO SCHOOLS IN ABIA
REPORTER: LAWRENCE NWOKEDI
The Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouq, says Federal Government has fed over nine million school pupils through the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme since its inception in the country.
The Minister made this known in a message to the handingover of three hundred and ninety-seven thousand feeding utensils provided by the Federal Government for beneficiaries of the National Home Grown School feeding programme in Umuahia, Abia State.
Hajiya Farouq, who was represented by a Director in the ministry, Mr. Charles Anaelo, said that the programme was designed to tackle poverty in all its forms.
She noted that Federal Government had commenced the deployment of interventions within the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme that would help resolve the identified gaps, including a nationwide enumeration with the objective of verifying the existing data.
In a message, Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, represented by the state focal person, National Social Investment Programme, Chief Chinenye Nwogu, commended the Federal Government for establishing the feeding Programme in schools and urged the beneficiaries to make proper use of the items.
The Programme Manager, Abia State Home Grown School Feeding Programme, Elder Emeka Ahuruonye, while applauding the efforts of President Buhari’s administration for the laudable initiative, said that through the Programme pupils in government owed schools had begun to receive balance (diet) meals during school period.
Some of the beneficiaries, in an interview, thanked the Federal Government for providing the utensils.
Some of Utensils distributed during the occasion included plates, spoons, forks, cups, bowls and food packs.
