Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development have announced that the modified Home Grown School feeding Programme will commence on Thursday, May 14, 2020 in Abuja then subsequently in Lagos and Ogun before going to other states of the federation.

Why are school children being fed at home?

The programme is being implemented based on a March 29, 2020 presidential pronouncement directing FMHDSD to liaise with state governments to develop strategies on the continuation of the homegrown school feeding program.

The Ministry in consultation and collaboration with state governments identified the distribution of Take-Home Rations (THR) to the households of the children on the programme as a feasible method of achieving this directive after exploring several options.

In order to trace the children who are at home due to the lockdown, FMHDSD requested states to carry out mapping exercises in order to trace the households of the children using all available data sources including the School-Based Management Boards, community focal persons, cooks on the programme and most importantly existing school registers in the LGAs where the schools are domiciled, which is the primary source of data of beneficiaries used by the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme.

As the second level of verification, the door to door voucher distribution process will be used. This is currently ongoing in Abuja and Lagos.

Is FMHDSD not implementing the programme?

The Federal Government is providing funds to the States for implementation and the programme will be carried out based on data provided and structures put in place by the @NHGSFP over the years.

The programme will run in all 36 states and the FCT.

Following requests from Kwara & Bayelsa where the homegrown school feeding programme was not fully operational before the lockdown, the two states will now benefit from the modified programme once certain requirements are fulfilled.

Contrary to ongoing speculation, the Take-Home Rations would NOT be given to CHILDREN but to the parents & guardians & caregivers of children in primary 1 to 3 in public schools participating in the programme.

A total of 3,131,971 households are targeted for this intervention.

Procedure For Distribution of Take-Home Rations

For beneficiaries to be able to access the Take-Home Rations QR coded vouchers will be distributed door to door. They will be serialized as well as date and time-stamped. Once presented at a distribution center, identified head of households would be able to collect the Take-Home Rations...Continue Reading

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