Top Stories

    Warning: foreach() argument must be of type array|object, null given in /home4/watchgha/public_html/views/partials/navigation.php on line 177
School Feeding caterers, cooks to undergo intensive training
News

School Feeding caterers, cooks to undergo intensive training

The Acting National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), Dr. Mrs. Gertrude Quashigah has disclosed that from early part of June 2019, caterers and cooks of the programme would undergo intensive training and capacity building to sharpen their cooking skills.
The training she indicated would enable the caterers to improve on the nutritional, hygiene and quality standards in the preparation of meals for school children to keep them healthy and active to learn at all times.
Speaking in an interview at her office in Accra, the Acting National Coordinator of GSFP said the training would also target the School Health Education Programme (SHEP) Coordinators and District Desk Officers (DDOs) to play their supervisory roles effectively.
With funding from the World Food Programme (WFP) and technical support from the Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and YEDENT, the training programme according to Dr. Mrs. Quashigah would mark the beginning of the new face of the Ghana School Feeding Programme.
Foto
Dr. Mrs. Gertrude Quashigah, Acting National Coordinator, GSFP
She said that several other measures are being introduced to improve the Ghana School Feeding Programme nationwide. Some major challenges facing the programme in almost all the districts are the lack of kitchen space, dining space, eating bowls for children, refrigerators for excess food storage, water storage facilities and modern cooking tools among others. Dr. Mrs. Quashigah disclosed that the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection led by Mrs. Cynthia Mamle Morrison and School Feeding Secretariat were staking strategic steps to get the various District Assemblies, the Private Sector, Religious and Civil Society Organisations as well as other development partners to support the programme to address the aforementioned challenges. The Acting Coordinator indicated that apart from its core mandate of providing one hot nutritious meal on every school day for deprived children, increasing enrollment and retention, the School Feeding Programme is going to create more direct and indirect employment for many Ghanaians to boost the local economy. She noted that under the Home Grown School Feeding, the consumption of locally produced food stuffs by local farmers would be vigorously enforced. Dr. Mrs. Quashigah said the Management of the Ghana School Feeding Programme would ensure that the caterers buy from the local farmers at all times so that they could continue to produce more. “It is just a matter of letting the farmers especially those under the Planting for Food and Jobs know exactly what kind of crops the caterers need to prepare meals for the children so that the farmers can cultivate them accordingly. In this way more jobs will be created for the farmers, transport owners, drivers, loading boys etc”, The Ghana School Feeding Programme now benefits over 2.8 million pupils in 9,495 deprived schools. It has also employed over 9,700 caterers and 19,400 cooks and expressed the need for its improvement and sustainability.

Source: WatchGhana.Com

Related Posts

Leave Comments