Inforpress Basquetebol: Emanuel Trovoada orienta “Campus” de treinamento para jovens atletas no pavilhão Vává Duarte ANG Processo Eleitoral/Pai Terra Ranca exige ao GTAPE o respeito e a observância estrita da lei na atualização dos cadernos eleitorais ANP Le Conseil Régional de Tahoua tient sa première session ordinaire au titre de l’année 2024 AGP Guinée: Le comité de pilotage du Fonds de consolidation de la paix tient sa première réunion ANP 4ème session du Comité de Pilotage du Programme Régional de Développement des Chaînes de Valeurs Riz-Niger (RRVCDP) ANP Le Gouverneur de Tillabéri lance les activités commémoratives de la Journée mondiale de l’eau, Edition 2024, couplée à la Semaine nationale de l’eau MAP Afrique du Sud: les rivières et les barrages atteignent un stade de pollution irréversible (experts) ANP N’Gourti: le Préfet Issoufou Koraou lance de l’opération vente de céréales à prix modérés AIP Une multinationale prône la mobilité électrique pour une meilleure transition énergétique en Côte d’Ivoire ANG Ensino/Governo e parceiros iniciam mapeamento escolar para identificar necessidades e planear medidas

Tema West to roll out ‘One school, One Kitchen’ policy


  30 Juillet      80        Education (7104), Société (44859),

 

Accra, July 30, GNA-Mr Kwesi Poku Bosompem, the Presiding Member for the Tema West Municipal Assembly, has revealed that a policy to fit every basic, Junior and Senior High School with a kitchen will soon be operationalised.

Calling it, ‘One school, One kitchen’ policy, Mr Bosompem said plans were far advanced to roll out the policy.

« The School Feeding programme is one of the numerous social interventions that the New Patriotic Party (NPP), out of our realistic governance style, instituted for the sake of the masses. Since President Kufuor initiated the policy, it has grown and needs updates.

« We have realised that the current system where school caterers are allowed to prepare the food from wherever they wish and bring it to the students to eat is not safe, and so we have come up with the policy to fit every school with a kitchen where the caterers can work from and therefore be effectively monitored by the school authorities, » Mr Bosompem said.

According to him, the roll out of the policy would increase food hygiene and safety for beneficiary students.

The School which was started by the first NPP government led by President John Agyekum Kufuor, currently has at least 200,000 students on its beneficiary list.

The programme, like all other ones, faced numerous challenges, but weathered all storms.

Mr Bosompem said the ‘One School, One Kitchen’ policy was aimed at nourishing the programme.

« Rome was not built in a day, and progress is usually in phases; this is one of the phases of improvement in the school feeding policy. First we started putting food on the table for the kids, now we want to make sure the food is prepared within the schools themselves »

He likened the gradual nature of progress in the school feeding programme to the Free SHS programme, which was currently in the news because of government’s re-introduction of the shift system, in order to enable the many children who had been attracted into school by the policy to get enough contact hours with teachers.

Mr Bosompem said those seeing the introduction of the shift system into SHS education as a retrogression had gotten it all wrong.

According to him, the twist and turns in the policy was rather a demonstration that in spite of the many challenges of the policy and its implementation, government was poised to ensure that it succeeded.

« It is like climbing a tree, sometimes in order to successfully swing for a branch, you have to take steps backwards, » he said.

GNA

GRB

30 July 18

Photo Attached

Dans la même catégorie