Experts from across the globe have commended the Osun State school feeding programme tagged O’Meals again at the 16th Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum held in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa.
The Deputy Governor, who also doubles as the Commissioner for Education of Osun State, Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, who represented Nigeria at the forum, took time to explain in details the success of O’Meals in one of the sessions.
Speaking to over 250 delegates from 40 countries, including 10 ministers and 18 deputy ministers, Laoye-Tomori highlighted how the use of biometrics data capturing had helped to reduce issues of leakages in the system.
Laoye-Tomori also narrated how Osun State has improved its economy by empowering small scale farmers, youth and women through the school feeding programme in the state.
According to her: “As part of the efforts of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration to promote functional education in the state, the governor decided to feed elementary pupils with nourishing food.
“The programme has impacted positively on school enrolment with an increase of over 25 per cent. We are presently feeding over 252,000 pupils which has increased the enrolment profile of pupils in the public schools.
“It is our belief that if the school feeding programme helps attract pupils to public schools, the newly built schools with the state of the art facilities which provide a serene environment conducive to learning will help to retain them.”
Laoye-Tomoro however used the occasion to seek the collaboration of United States Deputy Under Secretary, the President of the World Food Programme and the Centre of Excellence Against Hunger with the Osun State Government.
Other speakers at the forum, supported by international organisations like the World Food Programme, the Centre of Excellence Against Hunger, Cozinha Brasil, Social Service for Industry Brazil, SESI and the Department of Basic Education of the Republic of South Africa, included Genye White, the President of the Board of Directors of GCNF.
Others were Daniel Balaban, the Director of WFP’s Centre of Excellence against Hunger; Janey Thornton, the Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services in the United States Department of Agriculture; and Alice Martin-Daihirou, the Country Director, Uganda, WFP.
Experts from across the globe have commended the Osun State school feeding programme tagged O’Meals again at the 16th Annual Global Child Nutrition Forum held in Vanderbijlpark, Gauteng, South Africa.
The Deputy Governor, who also doubles as the Commissioner for Education of Osun State, Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori, who represented Nigeria at the forum, took time to explain in details the success of O’Meals in one of the sessions.
Speaking to over 250 delegates from 40 countries, including 10 ministers and 18 deputy ministers, Laoye-Tomori highlighted how the use of biometrics data capturing had helped to reduce issues of leakages in the system.
Laoye-Tomori also narrated how Osun State has improved its economy by empowering small scale farmers, youth and women through the school feeding programme in the state.
According to her: “As part of the efforts of the Governor Rauf Aregbesola administration to promote functional education in the state, the governor decided to feed elementary pupils with nourishing food.
“The programme has impacted positively on school enrolment with an increase of over 25 per cent. We are presently feeding over 252,000 pupils which has increased the enrolment profile of pupils in the public schools.
“It is our belief that if the school feeding programme helps attract pupils to public schools, the newly built schools with the state of the art facilities which provide a serene environment conducive to learning will help to retain them.”
Laoye-Tomoro however used the occasion to seek the collaboration of United States Deputy Under Secretary, the President of the World Food Programme and the Centre of Excellence Against Hunger with the Osun State Government.
Other speakers at the forum, supported by international organisations like the World Food Programme, the Centre of Excellence Against Hunger, Cozinha Brasil, Social Service for Industry Brazil, SESI and the Department of Basic Education of the Republic of South Africa, included Genye White, the President of the Board of Directors of GCNF.
Others were Daniel Balaban, the Director of WFP’s Centre of Excellence against Hunger; Janey Thornton, the Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services in the United States Department of Agriculture; and Alice Martin-Daihirou, the Country Director, Uganda, WFP.
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