Abia State Government Commences Free Meal Programme for School Pupils
The Abia State government has flagged off the free lunch programme aimed at giving tpupils free meals daily in all public primary schools.
Vanguard reports that the programme, according to the government, would help “meet the basic nutritional needs of children and expand the opportunity to reach their full potential and significantly enhance the academic performance of the children.”
The programme is meant to feed a total number of 136, 258 pupils, who will consume 408, 774 fresh eggs, 51, 09, 670 grammes of Ofada rice (local Nigeria rice) and 68, 120, 000 grammes of beans, weekly.
Over the weekend, during the flag-off of the first phase of the programme at Ntigha primary school in Isiala Ngwa North council, Governor Ikpeazu said the initiative was borne out of a genuine desire to invest in Nigerian children who are the future leaders.
Furthermore, he said that he understood what it meant to go to school on an empty stomach as well as the pains some parents went through to provide meals for their children, adding that under the scheme, every pupil in Abia was sure of at least one meal per day.
The governor lamented that tons of food that end up in the dust bin on a daily basis by the rich while some children go hungry due to lack, and stressed the need to bridge the gap.
He then pledged to sustain the programme.
Okay
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Wao
Nice idea
Gud for them
I still prefer a conducive learning environment to this feeding. It might look good at the beginning but…. Well, not a bad one
Nice one….sustenance of the program is the koko
Good for them
Ok
That’s the ugly stage we have deteriorated to in this country, so sad.