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General News of Tuesday, 12 May 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

Modified Home Grown School feeding program to commence Thursday

Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Farouq Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Sadiya Farouq

The Federal Government Home-Grown School feeding Programme is scheduled to commence on Thursday, May 14, 2020, in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun before going to other states of the federation.

The programme was implemented based on a March 29, 2020, presidential pronouncement directing the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to liaise with state governments to develop strategies on the continuation of the school feeding program.

The Ministry in consultation and collaboration with state governments identified the distribution of Take-Home Rations (THR) to the households of the children on the programme as a feasible method of achieving this directive after exploring several options.

In order to trace the children who are at home due to the lockdown, the Ministry requested states to carry out mapping exercises in order to trace the households of the children using all available data sources including the School-Based Management Boards, community focal persons, cooks on the programme and most importantly existing school registers in the LGAs where the schools are domiciled.

The programme will run in all 36 states and the FCT. Following requests from Kwara & Bayelsa where the programme was not fully operational before the lockdown, the two states will now benefit from the modified programme once certain requirements are fulfilled.

Contrary to ongoing speculation, the Take-Home Rations would not be given to children but to the parents & guardians & caregivers of children in primary 1 to 3 in public schools participating in the programme. A total of 3,131,971 households are targeted for this intervention.

For beneficiaries to be able to access the Take-Home Rations QR coded vouchers will be distributed door to door. They will be serialized as well as date and time-stamped. Once presented at a distribution centre, identified head of households would be able to collect the Take-Home Rations.

Each Take-Home Ration is valued at N4,200 & made up of 5 kg Bag of Rice, 5 kg Bag of Beans, 500 ml Vegetable Oil, 750 ml Palm Oil, 500 mg Salt, 15 pcs of eggs, 140gm Tomato Paste. These rations have been reviewed by nutrition experts.