Schools to benefit from Free Lunch Program
Now that the Kenyan Kwanza administration has given Sh5 billion to the School Feeding Programme for all public schools, students and parents may rest easy.
Finance Minister CS Njuguna Ndung’u revealed the aforementioned sum on Thursday after presenting the budget forecasts for 2023–2024.
The Sh3.6 trillion Kenya Kwanza budget for 2023–24 first budget has been used to support the school feeding programme that President William Ruto promised to implement during the 2022 election campaigns in all public elementary schools across the nation.
To ensure the effective operation of schools, Ruto had said that the Kwanza government would execute the plan in classrooms across the nation.
The purpose of this programme, according to the Kenya Kwanza administration, is to improve student nutrition and promote student retention in schools.
According to Ruto, it is possible in Kenya. By implementing this effort, our kids won’t have to go out and find lunch or possibly go without.
According to Education CS Ezekiel Machogu, it was made clear during his appearance before the national parliament that parents of junior secondary school students are responsible for feeding their children in accordance with the secondary school implementation guidelines.
Schools to benefit from Free Lunch Program
For JSS schools, Guideline 8.6 states that parents and guardians are in charge of supplying lunches.
The following is a quote from the sentence: “JSS management shall ensure that no student leaves school as a result of paying lunch programme fees.”
The jss board should give parents the option of sending their kids to school with a packed lunch or paying for lunches out of pocket, according to Machogu.
following debating and deciding on the amount that each parent must pay to provide lunch for their children, the JSS board should schedule a meeting of the parents of that specific school, following which they make the payment.Machogu emphasised that this payment is merely an option and is not required.
According to Machogu’s further statement, the government works to ensure that all students receive food at their institutions.
In order to profit, students are now eagerly expecting the program’s deployment in schools.
