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Share: March 01, 2021 Children more likely to return to school and local economies to recover from the devastating impact of COVID-19 in the continent Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – The 6th African Day of School Feeding (ADSF), was celebrated under the theme “Harnessing Africa’s Traditional Knowledge and Food to Support Home-Grown School Feeding Programmes and Systems During COVID-19 Response and Beyond”. The date marked the commitment of African countries to strengthen and consolidate political will for school feeding on the continent. Across Africa, one in two school children, or over 65 m...

The Garden Route school & its teachers going the extra mile to feed its learners ”With the food I get from school I manage to eat during the day” The food programme at Phakamisani Primary School includes rice, vegetables and pilchards. Photo: Siphokazi Mnyobe / GroundUp About 800 learners are fed twice a week, with food including pilchards, samp, rice and vegetables. The Western Cape Education Department provides the food and pays the kitchen staff but the petrol to take the food to the learners is bou...

Buhari inaugurates Presidential steering committee on alternate school programme On President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated an 18-member Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme ASP. At the inauguration which took place at the Presidential Villa January 26, 2021,  President Buhari charged the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to coordinate and lead the deployment of a National Plan which will address the issue of out-of-school children in the country. The President said that  it was unacceptable to see children abandoning f...

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated an 18-member Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme, ASP. “At the inauguration which took place at the Presidential Villa January 26, 2021, President Buhari charged the ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development to coordinate and lead the deployment of a National Plan which will address the issue of out-of-school children in the country,” a statement by Nneka Anibeze, Special Assistant to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Umar Farouq, ...