From school to home feeding
The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development launched on May 14 a shift from school to home feeding of disadvantaged pupils.
Further, the parent of each eligible child would collect these items with a voucher already issued to them and there will be 6,000 collection centres across the country. However, while mitigating the pain of the pandemic for vulnerable children is laudable, implementation of the programme needs to be as fair and credible as is humanly possible.
Once there is a provision for vouchers for eligible children, the government ought to introduce coupons or vouchers that the pupils could use to buy food in canteens or make vouchers given to parents of eligible pupils acceptable for deposit in banks as payment for food purchased from open markets, as it is done in many other countries.
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