SCHOOL FEEDING IN LIMBO AS MATRON STARVE STUDENTS.

By


 Governments all over the world initiate policies and programs with the backdrop of alleviating poverty and hunger in rural areas.

The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) which started in 2005 is one of such policies.

The school meals and school feeding have been used as an effective mechanism for addressing child nutrition, educational enrolment and retention and hygiene issues in most parts of the world.

The prima goal of the Ghana School Feeding Programme is to deliver a well-organized, decentralized intervention providing disadvantaged school children with nutritionally adequate, locally produced food thereby reducing poverty through improved household incomes and effective local economic development.

But the above mentioned goals of the policy seem to be hitting the rocks in the Anloga District.

Miss Linda Degorl, a cousin to the DCE for Anloga District, is one of the privileged people to be awarded the school feeding program in some selected schools in Kome, in the Anloga District.

The actions of Matron Linda are fine description of emotionally hardened person.

Apart from cooking substandard foods,  she deliberately starved the disadvantaged students who depend solely on the food she cooks. According to a teacher who spoke to the Third Eye News Gh under the condition of anonymity said the matron on countless occasions starved the pupils. "She did not cook for the schools in the first week of resumption of the JHS Two (2) students, the worse happened on Friday, 30th October, 2020, when she "buried" 80 students" he said.

When accosted, she gave flimsy excuse of not having gas to cook for the students.

Linda has no regard the GES approved menu for cooking as she often resort to preparing cheaper dishes, that is, kenkey with tiny fried fish and plain rice and "tasteless" tomatoes sauce with boiled egg.

All attempt by the headteachers and the teachers to drawn her attention to her behaviour proved futile.

This is but one of the numerous plights meted out to schools under the feeding program by Matrons of Linda's caliber which goes unreported.

Persons like Linda are the reasons why good policies and programs of successive governments do not meet their formulated  goals.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

RESPONSE TO A VIDEO PORTRAYING TREE CUTING AND DEVASTATION IN THE KOME AREA OF ANLO

By
Image
  In the second week of November 2021, a video went viral giving the impression that the people of Alakple and Atito in the Kome area of Anlo have been destroying trees planted by government in our area. This video is coming at a time that the world is focused on climate change at the COP26 in Glasgow UK and where tree planting and forestation are key issues of the conference.  It is important to note that tree planting in the Kome area of Anlo started in about the year 2000, as a self help project and not by Government. This project was spearheaded by the NGO called RUSO formed by the former Member of Parliament Hon. Clement Kofi Humado and family at Alakple. A Cassia seedling nursery was established in his residence at Alakple and managed by a Peace Corps volunteer called Pamela. Volunteer youth from Alakple and Latame were recruited to plant seedlings in the Kome towns and along the main road from Alakple to Kome Junction. Later individuals came from surrounding communities of Kodzi
Read more

KOME AND SHIME COMMUNITIES SITTING ON TICKING TIME BOMB?

By
Image
Cattle ranching has a lot consequential effects on ecological setting where it is practiced. The Third-Eye Gh News takes the a comprehensive look at "CATTLE REARING AND ITS IMPACT ON THE ECOSYSTEM AND LIVELIHOODS OF THE KOME AND SHIME COMMUNITIES OF THE ANLOGA DISTRICT OF THE VOLTA REGION" Introduction Keta Lagoon, also called Anlo-Keta lagoon, is the largest of the over 90 lagoons that cover the 550 km stretch of the coastline of Ghana. This lagoon is 126 km in length and is located in the eastern coast of Ghana and separated from the Gulf of Guinea by a narrow strip of sandbar. This open salty water is surrounded by flood plains and mangrove swamps. Together they form the Keta Lagoon Ramsar site which covers 1200 km2 There are seasonal inflow of sea water during high tide from the Gulf of Guinea into the rivers. The rivers which drain into the lagoon include the Aka, the Tordzi River and Belikpa stream which enter the lagoon from the north. The lagoon is surrounded by many
Read more

BAD ROADS, THE BLIGHT OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT.

By
Image
Road networks, just as any other catalyst infrastructure, opens up rural communities to development. Most rural communities in Ghana, particularly, the Volta Region, are under-developed due to bad nature of roads linking these communities to bigger towns despite being abound with a lot business potentials. Potholes ridden roads are not just recipe for road accidents but the straw that stirs the drink of poverty as profitable ventures remain untapped. The case is not different in  some rural communities in the Anloga District of Volta Region of Ghana. One road of importance in the Anloga District which is left to deteriorate is the 13 kilometres Savietula-Anyanui road. This particular road links notable communities such as Savietula, Atorkor, Akplorwotorkor, Adakordzi, Dzita, Agbledomi, Anyanui, Atiteti, Fuveme, Tunu, Bomigo and Gblife. The inhabitants of these communities are predominantly vegetable farmers and fisher folks who use this road on daily basis to transport their produce to
Read more