More children benefiting from school feeding programme

Winneba, June 26, GNA - Some 4,245 pupils from eight primary schools in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya District (AESD) have been selected under the School Feeding Programme and are given one hot meal a day. The schools are at Mayenda, Kofiansa, Chochoe, Bontrase and Kasoa. The rest are Okwabena Seven Days Adventist, Emmanuel Presbyterian and the Saint Martha Presbyterian School.

The Awutu-Effutu-Senya District Chief Executive, Mr. Solomon Abam-Quaye, who was speaking at the first ordinary session of the assembly at Winneba, said a total of 934.4 million cedis have been spent on the programme.

He said the assembly would do its best to include some urban schools in the programme since apart from Kasoa all the beneficiary schools are from the rural areas.

Next year some schools in Winneba, Senya Beraku and Bawjiase would be included.

On the Youth Employment Programme, the DCE said a total of 373 youth have been employed as teaching assistants, health extension workers and waste management.

Mr Abbam-Quaye expressed the hope that that those employed would take advantage of their training and work hard to be absorbed into the national mean stream, with teaching assistants making it to teacher training colleges.