The African Union (AU) has said that no fewer than 65.4 million children in Nigeria and 50 other countries on the continent are already benefiting from the School Feeding Programme.
The Project Manager for Nutrition and Food Safety, Africa Union Development Agency – New Partnership for African Development (AUDA-NEPAD), Ms. Kefilwe Rhoba Moalosi, made this known during the school feeding stakeholders strategic meeting themed: “Encouraging state-driven implementation and best practices for school feeding towards local agricultural value chain, community engagement, and economic development.”
Applauding Nigeria on the implementation of the school feeding programme, she explained that data compiled by the AU in 2019 indicates that the aforementioned figure was drawn from 51 countries on the continent.
This, she says, represents a massive increase from 38.4 million in 2013.
She further stated that statistics indicate that only 27% of children in…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
