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March 11, 2016
National secretariat of school feeding programme urged to be
fair to schools
Bolgatanga, Oct 4, (Akapule) Ghanadot/GNA- The Northern
Patriots in Research and Advocacy (NORPRA) has appealed to
the National Secretariat of the Ghana School Feeding
Programme (GSFP) to be fair to the three Northern Regions
and other poor communities in Ghana in its selection of
schools for the programme.
This was contained in a statement signed and issued by the
President of NORPRA, Mr Bismarck Adongo Ayorogo at
Bolgatanga.
It stated that the School Feeding Programme, initiated by
the United Nations and NEPAD is aimed at helping Ghana
attain the Millennium Development Goals, especially
eradicating poverty and hunger, universal primary education
and gender equality, and noted that it was therefore sad to
see that the National Secretariat was using the programme to
frustrate, marginalize and discriminate against the poorest
segment of the society particularly the three Northern
Regions.
The statement explained that it was on record that some
areas in the country known to have incidence of poverty of
10 per cent have about one hundred of their schools being
selected for the programme, whilst the entire three Northern
Regions with an average poverty level of 70 per cent had
only 80 schools selected.
It noted that the National Secretariat of the programme had
since 2005 adopted and applied the “equal distribution
formula”. It started with one school per region and later
extended it to one school per district in 2006.
The statement pointed out that as at December 2007, a total
number of schools benefiting from the programme stood at
975.
It said continuous application of the adopted formula, which
to a greater extent had no respect for poverty levels, would
have been allocating seven schools to each of the 138
districts in the country and that would have undoubtedly
covered 168 schools in the three Northern Regions.
The statement therefore called on the National Secretariat
of the GSFP to demonstrate fairness and transparency by
applying to all, the particular formula that gave a single
metropolis one hundred schools.
GNA
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