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1.2 million pupils benefit from school feeding programme in Kano – Minister

Over 1.2 million pupils have benefited from the national homegrown school feeding programme in Kano State, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social…

Over 1.2 million pupils have benefited from the national homegrown school feeding programme in Kano State, the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Hajiya Safiya Umar Faruq, has said.

The homegrown school feeding programme is part of the federal government’s National Social Investment Programmes (NSIPs) to alleviate poverty and to improve the nutritional status of benefiting students as well as boost the local economy and facilitate job creations.

The minister, who revealed this during the flag-off ceremony for the handover of feeding utensils to Kano State government, on the national homegrown school feeding programme at Kwalli Special Primary School, said Kano had the largest share of the over 9 million pupils fed in the programme.

Represented by the ministry’s permanent secretary, Alhaji Bashir Nura Alkali, the minister urged the state government to make sure the feeding utensils are used for the purpose they were provided for.

The Kano State Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sanusi Kiru, said the federal government’s school feeding programme had led to increased enrolment of pupils from 1.2 million to 2.1 million in the state.

 

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