Follow directives to stop spread of COVID-19 School Feeding Coordinator advises
FEB 2, 2021
The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr Mrs Gertrude Quashigah has encouraged pupils in Ghana to strictly observe the COVID-19 protocols in order to stop the spread of the deadly COVID-19.
She appealed to the pupils to be exemplary by obeying the President s directives particularly, the wearing of face mask, use of hand sanitiser, washing hands regularly with soap under running water, maintaining social distance, and good personal hygiene to ensure a safe learning environment.
The Coordinator made these statements when she joined pupils of Rangoon Camp 2 Primary School in Accra to mark the celebration of her 61st Birthday.
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Office of Research – Innocenti and the World Food Programme (WFP) report indicates that nutrition crisis looms as globally more than 39 billion in-school meals missed since start of COVID-19 pandemic.
The report, which was made available to the Ghana News Agency by UNICEF, attributed the situation to schools’ closures since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The report, dubbed “COVID-19: Missing More Than a Classroom” notes that 370 million children worldwide – many of whom are reliant on school meals as a key source of their daily nutrition – have missed 40 per cent of in-school meals, on average, since COVID-19 restrictions shuttered classrooms.
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Lunch Box: “A COVID-19 inspired” School Feeding initiative for vulnerable schools
By Food for All Africa LISTEN
JAN 26, 2021
School feeding programmes have been a key response to the recent food and economic crises and function to some degree in nearly every country in the world. School feeding is a multi-sectoral intervention with effects across education, health, and nutrition, and with the potential for benefits across a life course.
The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) was initiated in 2005 as a social protection intervention in the context of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Pillar III and in response to the first and second Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).