Source: newsthemegh.com
The Caterers of the Ghana School Feeding Program have been urged to call off their strike by Mrs. Lariba Zuweira Abudu, Minister of Gender, Children, and Social Protection.
She promised that they will get their reimbursements for the third term of the 2022 academic year’s arrears within the coming week.
When the Ghana School Feeding Program executives and the Minister met in Accra to discuss complaints and problems with the program, the Minister made the appeal.
This comes after the program’s caterers refused to cook for the students again unless their debts were settled.
In order to keep up with growing food prices, they also asked an increase in their fee per child from 97 pesewas to GHC 3.
“And I’m glad we had a very fruitful discussion,” Mrs. Abudu remarked. After our cordial sisterly conversation, I guaranteed you that the money will be in your accounts by tomorrow or the next day.
I can guarantee you that everything has been completed so that you will receive your money tomorrow or the following day. I shall thus beg you to return and then continue cooking.
She reassured them that the Ministry would consider their complaints and address them as long as they continued to collaborate.
The President, Minister, and Management of the School Feeding Secretariat were praised by Madam Juliana Cudjoe, President of the Greater Accra School Feeding Caterers Association, for “hearing their voice.”
The President has informed us that as we move forward, they will take action about the proposed 20% increase, she added. “We have had a fruitful meeting and we are telling our members that very soon the money would touch their accounts, as our Minister has stated.
The Ghana School Feeding Programme, a 2005-launched government initiative, aims to feed students in public elementary schools from kindergarten to primary six.
The Program was designed and put into action to raise domestic food production, decrease short-term hunger and malnutrition, and promote school enrollment, attendance, and retention.