[ 2011-04-15 ]

More rural schools to be included in Feeding Programme - Mills
The School Feeding Programme is to target more
deprived basic schools in rural communities,
President John Evans Mills, has said.

The purpose of the intervention could be better
served in these areas instead of the cities where
many pupils refuse to take the free meals because
their parents can feed them.

President Mills, who is on the last leg of his
three-day official working visit to the Ashanti
Region said this when he presented a bus to the
Bosome-Freho Senior High Technical School and
inaugurated a dormitory built for the school
through the Ghana education Trust Fund (GETFund)
at Asiwa.

He said they were determined to create the right
conditions in schools to aid effective teaching
and learning as well as promote the health of the
children.

President Mills said since the youth were the most
treasured assets of the nation everything would be
done to create opportunities for them.

He, however, reminded the young people that they
also have some responsibility for their own future
and this entailed upholding the values of hard
work and integrity.

As the government, supported by the communities,
parents and other stakeholders provide the needed
educational infrastructure and facilities, they
should accept to take their studies seriously.

President Mills said it was by so doing that they
would grow into responsible adults ready to take
up leadership positions in society.

He later inspected on-going works on an
administration block for the district assembly and
inaugurated a market built with funds from the
district development fund.

Source - GNA

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