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The Kaduna State Government has announced that about 25,000 school children across the 23 local councils of the state have benefited from the school feeding programme executed by the government to the tune of N4 billion.
The government has also assured that “almajirai” children in the state would be given qualitative educational opportunities.
The Special Assistant to Governor Uba Sani on the School Feeding Programme, Dr. Fauziya Buhari-Ado, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.
Buhari-Ado spoke while hosting some Islamic and underprivileged school pupils to mark the Eid el-Kabir Sallah celebration held at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua Bilingual Primary School in Maraban Gonda, Sabongari Local Council.
Fauziya added that the school feeding programme, had boosted school enrolment and retention.
“Government decided to fete the pupils who combine both Western and Islamic education as part of an ongoing effort to ensure that children of the less privileged get access to quality education in the state,” she said.
Fauziya also revealed that the Sallah celebration offered her the opportunity to interact with the pupils who were initially out-of-school children.
“The school feeding initiative is “a welcome development since it has created an enabling environment for vulnerable children to have equal opportunities to acquire education in the state,” an official of one of the Islamic schools, AbdulHamid Ahmed, said.
The village head of Filin Malawa, Magaji Datiya, thanked the Governor Sani-led administration for the kind gesture.
