The Federal Government of Nigeria has released details of how the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program scheduled to begin on 14th May will be executed first in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun before other states.
Following President Buhari’s directive to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to continue the school feeding programme, the ministry said it developed a programme to distribute take-home rations to the households of the children already on the school feeding programme.
The ministry described the take-home ration programme as a “feasible method of achieving” the president’s directive of feeding children who are on the school feeding programme but now stay at home due to COVID-19.
The children will be traced by using the data from the public school registers in the LGAs where the schools are domiciled. Other tracing strategies, according to the ministry include school-based management boards, community focal persons and cooks on the programme.
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said 3.1 million children across 36 states and the FCT would get the intervention. It added that over 6000 schools will serve as distribution centres to serve children who are not current beneficiaries of the school feeding programme.
“The take-home rations would not be given to children but to parents and guardians and caregivers of children in primary 1 to 3 in public schools participating in the programme,” the ministry stated.
The ministry also said there would be a door-to-door QR coded voucher distribution exercise that will allow heads of households to receive the Take-Home Ration.
“They (voucher) will be serialized as well as dated and time stamped. Once presented at a distribution center, identified head of households would be able to access the Take-Home Rations,” the ministry explained.
The take-home ration would contain food commodities that have been reviewed by nutrition experts.
“Each take-home ration is valued at N4,200 and 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, 140 gm tomato paste.”
The ministry said it was receiving technical support from the World Food Programme and called on security and anti-corruption agencies to monitor the programme in order to curb compromise.
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