Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Mrs Cynthia Morrison

Over 17,000 schools to receive one hot meal

Juliet Akyaa Safo Aug - 24 - 2020 , 11:56 0 minutes read

The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection (MoGCSP) says about 17,440 private and public basic schools have so far been captured to benefit from the one hot meal directed by President Akufo-Addo for all final-year junior high school (JHS) students and their teachers for a 20-day period.

President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo during his 15th national address on measures taken against the spread of COVID-19, directed the Gender Ministry to provide the meals as they write this year's Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

The Minister of MoGCSP, Mrs Cynthia Mamle Morrison, in an interview with Accra based radio station, Peace FM, said all was set for the distribution, stating that the first meal; "jollof" rice and an egg, would be served across the country.

She said their monitoring team, representatives of the Ministry and zonal coordinators were all at post monitoring the distribution.

“All caterers in the