The FG launches the National Feeding Programme in Aso Rock

The launching of the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme took place at the Presidential Villa in Abuja today. It will provide one free meal a day for primary school children.
This is Nigeria’s first national Home Grown School Feeding programme which would affect about 5.5m Nigerians in the first year of its operation.The forum was presided by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.

The forum had in attendance Governors of Borno, Oyo, Osun, Enugu and Kaduna, and other government representatives and stakeholders from all 36 Nigerian States as well as developmental partners.

The strategic plans for this programme will run until 2020 and form the cornerstone of the nationwide Home Grown School Feeding programme which when fully realized will provide a nutritious hot meal a day to over 24 million primary school children.