The Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development on thursday flagged- off Stakeholders engagement on enumeration of National Home-grown School Feeding (NHSFG) programme in Yobe state.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajiya Sadiya Umar Faruk, represented by the zonal monitor, Alhaji Ali Grema, said the effect of these special intervention affected millions of Nigerians with indices on the reduction of hunger and malnutrition, generating employment and creation of wealth.
Ali Grema said they were in Damaturu,Yobe state capital to strengthen the partnership and mutual recognition of the need to do more on the NHGSFP, bring more Nigerians under the umbrella of the government social protection mechanism and to look at scaling up the number of the pupils benefiting from the NHGSFP programme as directed by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“Federal NHGSFP and state Team as well as key stakeholders are to work jointly and closely to verify the existing numbers of the beneficiaries on the program and update the records for better effectiveness, transparency and accountability,” Ali Grema Said
While thanking the Yobe state governor, Mai Mala Buni, for his commitment in implementing the NHGSFP in the state, Ali also encouraged all the stakeholders to do more to ensure that more children benefits from the programme.
In her remarks,Yobe state program Manager NHGSFP, Hajiya Fatsuma Accama, said the program, home-grown school feeding is an initiative of the federal government, funded and designed to give one nutritional children in class 1-3 in all over the states.
She said in Yobe the program stated on September 30, 2019, and initially piloted schools from both rural and urban areas.
Fatsuma stated thatthe second and last batch of the pupils were also prepared and hopefully within August 2021 they are going to be on-board in the program in the state.
“The programme piloted across the 17 LGAs in Yobe state has about 215 cooks, and 106,797 pupils participating,” the program manager said.
Hajiya Fatsuma noted that the programme received great support from Yobe state government.
