The National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme, Hajia Fati Forgor, has disclosed that efforts are underway to secure an upward adjustment of the school feeding grant following appeals from caterers over the current amount.
She made this known during a monitoring visit to selected schools and catering facilities in the La Nkwantanang-Madina Municipality of the Greater Accra Region.
The visit, conducted alongside the Greater Accra Regional Coordinator, Jessica Braimah, formed part of the programme’s routine monitoring exercise to assess the quality of meals served to pupils and ensure that caterers meet the required nutritional and food preparation standards.
The team began its inspection at Immanuel Basic School in La Nkwantanang, where it assessed the meals served to pupils before visiting some of the facilities where caterers prepare the food.
According to Hajia Fati Forgor, concerns raised during the exercise centred largely on the adequacy of the current feeding grant and its impact on the quality of meals provided to schoolchildren.
She assured caterers that their appeals for an increase in the grant were receiving attention, adding that an official announcement on the proposed adjustment would be made in due course.
Story by : Edward Kofi Aryeh
