Umar Akilu Majeri
Over 490 primary school pupils in Jigawa state have so far received feeding Utensils from the federal government through a home-grown school feeding program.
The Minister of humanitarian affairs and disaster management Hajiya Sadiya Umar Farouk stated this at the handing over of the feeding utensils to Jigawa state Government for beneficiaries held at Nuhu Muhammadu Sunusi primary school, Dutse.
Hajiya Sadiya Farouk who was represented by the permanent secretary of the ministry, Alhaji Bashir Alkali explained that it is a part of the recent utensils, that the federal government also provided over 400,000 feeding utensils for the use of primary school pupils across 27 local governments in the state.
According to her, the home-grown school feeding program was aimed at boosting school enrollment, child nutrition, local economic activities across thousands of communities in the country.
Hajiya Sadiya pointed out that, the program will also provide job to over 5,267 women whom will serve as cooks across 27 local government areas in the state.
The Minister said, about 2,180 schools benefitted from utensils that consist of plates, cutlery, cooking pots, biscuits, and juice in Jigawa.
She noted that, as part of an effort to address gaps in the program, the ministry has commenced deployment of intervention within the program that will identify the gaps including a nationwide enumeration exercise across the nation with the objective of verifying the existing data.
Sadiya Farouk, also commended the Jigawa state Governor Badaru Abubakar for his support which led to the success of the program.
