Story: Chris Nunoo, Wa
THE Deputy Upper West Regional Co-ordinating Director, Alhaji Isshaque Alhassan, has called on Ghanaians to condemn the way the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) is being managed and offer alternative solutions to the problems facing it.
This, he said was because the school feeding concept was very good, especially because it had positively impacted on school enrolment, improved nutrition and helped to develop education in general.
He has therefore, stressed the need for people to appreciate the idea behind the programme and help to improve and sustain it.
Alhaji Alhassan was speaking at a regional interface meeting of civil society and stakeholders of the GSFP at Wa, in the Upper West Region.
It was organised by Send Foundation, a non-governmental organisation, and it was aimed at bringing to the fore, problems associated with the GSFP in the region.
‘The School Feeding Programme is a good concept, despite the loopholes, but we do not have to throw the baby away with the bad water”, he said, adding that, Ghanaians must make the programme succeed.
For his part, the Country Director of Send Foundation, Mr Samuel Zan, said the meeting was neither meant to find faults with individuals nor institutions but to assess and evaluate the impact of the GSFP policy on school children.
He said the foundation was an advocate of the GSFP programme and was only interested in making the programme work.
Mr Zan therefore, expressed regret at the absence of the Upper West Regional Co-odinator of the GSFP at the meeting and commended representatives of other organisations who were present.
He said Ghanaians had the responsibility to ensure that the school feeding programme achieved the desired objectives.
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