Education Minister Douglas Syakalima and French Minister of State for International Partnerships Thani Mohamed-Soilihi visited Mulola Primary School in Chongwe for the official launch and handover of yellow split peas donated by the French Government through the World Food Programme (WFP).
The initiative aims to support Zambia’s emergency school feeding program, ensuring that vulnerable children receive nutritious meals essential for their growth and learning. By bolstering food security in schools, the program enhances students’ concentration and academic performance while encouraging school attendance.
Speaking at the event, Minister Syakalima expressed gratitude to the French Government and WFP, emphasizing the critical role of school feeding programs in improving education outcomes.The French government donated food worth 2.8 million Euros to support Zambia’s emergency school feeding programme.
Minister Mohamed-Soilihi reaffirmed France’s commitment to supporting Zambia in its efforts to combat food insecurity and enhance educational opportunities.
The partnership underscores the growing cooperation between Zambia and France in social development and humanitarian aid.
The meal program is a great initiative and just hope it’s sustainable.
I hope they arent feeding our children GMOs
I personally do not like the schoool feeding program. What we should instead be focussing on is growing and expanding our agriculture productivity at a household level so that it remains a responsibility of parents and guadians to feed the choildren. What the school agric extension and clinics could do is organise classes on growing nutritious food and how to prepare. Its unsustainable and creates the depndancy problem
That picture is very misleading and is very distant from reality
maybe it was taken for personal reasons ??
Why a majority pupils go on an empty stomach to school because of high cost of living? How can they concentrate on their studies?
Health, agriculture, education must be supported from own resources. Let those donors go towards social welfare and assist the parents of those starving kids with ration and other material nutritive items. We keep doing the same things that have yielded zero progress 60 years in.
We still waiting the egg a day which was promised us way back
let’s hope it’s included
How is it we think peas are good? What did we eat for millions of years until just 150 years ago? Meat. We are lions not sheep.