Federal Government says the soon-to-be resuscitated National Home Grown School Feeding Programme will cater for over 10 million pupils across the country.
This was made known in a statement signed by the Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu, Dr Yetunde Adeniji, on the school feeding programme, on Wednesday in Abuja.
Adeniyi said this when she paid a visit to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp at the Transitional Learning Centre, Wassa, Abuja.
She said the school feeding programme would ensure that no child in public school was left behind.
The presidential aide was at Wassa to inspect the school feeding programme sponsored by the Maple Leaf Early Years Foundation, an NGO.
The programme was in collaboration with the National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons.
Adeniji commended the programme at Wassa for its demonstrable success in bolstering school enrollment and attendance rates.
She said it was an instrumental force in the advancement of education, the alleviation of hunger, and the dismantling of the cycle of poverty.
Adeniji said the school feeding initiative under the President’s Renewed Hope Agenda was targeting pupils from primary one to three across the country.
According to Adeniji, the initiative resonates with the sentiment that every child deserves the opportunity to flourish and contribute to the nation’s development.
Adeniji articulated that by investing in children today, a brighter and more prosperous future was being forged for the nation.
She added that smallholder farmers would be engaged to supply foodstuffs for the school feeding programme, as soon as it commences.
While reiterating the objectives of the school feeding programme model, Adeniji said the programme was aimed at increasing promotion, promoting equity, stimulating growth, and reducing poverty.
