Sadiya Farouq, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Investment, claims that in the previous five years, 228,046 children in Gombe have benefited from homegrown school food.
Farouq further disclosed that one of the Federal Government’s programs targeted at promoting literacy among the public is the National Home Grown School Feeding Program.
She made the announcement at Hassan Central Primary School in Gombe, where the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Investment handed away 5,000 feeding utensils for the Home Grown School Feeding Program.
The School Feeding Programme is primarily aimed to fight poverty through a partnership between the State and the Federal Government, according to Farouq, who also serves as the National Co-ordinator of the Social Investment Program.
The Minister said, “The Federal Government has since the inception of the program enrolled over 1,234 schools, with 228,046 children being fed using the service of 3,073 cooks.”
She added, “Total investment of the Federal Government on all these sectors amount to N320,104,400 monthly. The sum of 4.5 billion Naira has been expended in the state.”
Gombe State Governor Muhammadu Yahaya, on his part, offered his administration’s support for all federal government programmes targeted at combating poverty and unemployment among Nigerians.
Governor Yahaya, who was represented by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Prof. Ibrahim Njodi, said: “The APC led Federal Government has taken practicable measures to ensure social protection and poverty alleviation strategies which seek to raise school enrollment, school nutrition and boost local economic activities across the communities in the country.”
He assured that the state government will do everything humanly possible to ensure that the challenges facing the successful implementation of the programme in the state are identified and addressed.
In her remarks, Hajiya Dijatu Bappa, the State Focal Person of the Programme and Special Advisers on Social Investment, thanked the Federal Government for the program, which she said has increased school enrollment in the state while also improving the economic well-being of students and food vendors.
Meanwhile, Governor Yahaya has urged participants at the Gombe State University’s four-day skills and entrepreneurship development course for mobile Money Agents in the North East to remain focused during the session.
Prof. Njodi, who was represented by the SSG, said the program, which aims to improve financial inclusion, was an initiative of the Federal Government to provide jobs for the country’s teeming youths.
He said, “It was the desire of President Muhammadu Buhari to bequeath a Nigeria where its working population will be gainfully employed thereby reducing poverty in the state.”
The program is expected to train, register, and support participants with starter packs worth N20,000 to operate mobile services in their respective communities, according to Dr. Umar Bindir, a representative of the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Investment and the Program’s Co-ordinator.
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