Cocoa Drink For School Feed the kids at breakfast from August 2019

Ms. Gertrude Quashigah, Acting National Coordinator of the Ghana School Feeding Program (GSFP), revealed that plans are well advanced to provide a cocoa drink to all students who benefit from the school feeding program.

She said the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, would launch it in August of this year, 2019.

According to her, the cocoa drink will be offered to children before their daily meal.

Expressing at the ongoing capacity-building training workshop organized by the Ghana School Feeding Program for all caterers, cooks and nutrition officers From Wa District, in the Far West region, Ms. Quashigah said the cocoa drink would help improve the health of children.

She said that her team had introduced several other innovations to improve the school feeding program, especially the quality of the meal served to children, the well-being of caterers and how to expand and maintain the program for the benefit of a greater number of Ghanaian children.

The school feeding program in Ghana was set up to increase school attendance, attendance and retention; reduce hunger and malnutrition in the short term and boost national food production.

The training, dubbed "Innovative Nutrition Initiative", focuses on "Improving School Meals Through Capacity Building" will allow caterers and their chefs to meet the quality standards required to prepare nutritious meals for their children. students.

The Acting National Coordinator indicated that the main goal of this training workshop was to train participants in the use of the meal planning software to generate district-wide menus, and to deepen participation and participation. participation of Regional, Metropolitan, District and Municipal Assembly Coordinating Boards (MMDAs) to manage an effective and efficient school feeding program.

From the Upper West region, more than 5,711 caterers and chefs are required to take intensive training to improve their cooking skills. It will then move to the Far East, Northeast, North and Savannah regions.

The training program is funded by the World Food Program (WFP) with technical support from the Partnership for Child Development (PCD).