Kano support FG’s school feeding programme

Kano state government has reiterated its commitment to continue supporting Home Grown Schools Feeding Programme of the Federal Government for the nutritious and economics development of the programme to the people of the state.

The state Governor Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje made this known at the Town Hall meeting to sensitized the stake holders and state vendors of the Home Grown Schools Feeding Programme held at the state capital.

The Governor who was represented by his Deputy Alhaji Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna said, a school feeding is not new to Kano State as the state, the Community Reorientation Committee (CRC) and local governments in the state was since engaged in the activity of feeding programme of the primary schools pupils in the state.

He further said that engaging of the Federal government in the programme has brings a lot of improvement, and he therefore thanked them for supporting the programme.

“It is not only about the feeding the programme is about many things, one of these is the issue of the children and their nutrition which will give our children balance diet” Gawuna pointed out.

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In an area of economics development, Gawuna said “The programme also supporting the local manufacturers and farmers where you find out a lot of economics activities has been revived”.

He then thanked the National office of the programme for including a lot of local producers in the programme.

On his part, the operational manager of the Home Grown School Feeding Programme Mr Dotin Adebayo said that the essence of the programme is to increase the school enrollment in the country and to empower people to increase the local agricultural products.

He further said, the programme is also aiming to tackle unemployment and to build the capacity of women in the country.

He also added that the programme has covered 26 states in the federation, hoping to cover 30 states in the next month.

He therefore appreciated the effort of the state government for giving maximum support to the programme urging the other states to copy from Kano.