Kenya Primary School Heads Association (KEPSHA) has advised the authorities to come up with pressing mitigation measures to ensure candidates dropping out of school due to hunger return to school in suitable time for countrywide examinations.
The Association’s chairman revealed that it will be tough for candidates who dropped out of school due to huger to return if food is not supplied in schools to appeal to them.
In line with this, he advised Parliament to treat with urgency the motion on school feeding programme pointing out that it will enhance on the retention rates, specially in public schools.
He stated Schools in arid zones like North Eastern are surely empty and that on account that all people is aware the results of drought in the area, they ought to go speedy and prioritize the matter.
According to Nzioka, the government have to take up the function of feeding the young people in public schools to make the a hundred per cent transition policy and retention a reality.
He determined that the school feeding programme is being undertaken by county governments solely in Early Childhood and Development Education (ECDE) centres.
Schools in arid areas of Central and Northern Kenya are recording high numbers of absenteeism due to famine, with many searching for transfers to institutions with feeding programmes.
Many schools in Laikipia, Meru and Isiolo counties, which have now not acquired food, have reported mass dropouts, with some solely attending morning lessons.
The motion on development of a School Feeding Policy, which is being moved with the aid of the Kakamega County MP Elsie Muhanda, was brought to the National Assembly on October 25, 2022.
Muhanda needs the Ministry of Education (MoE), through the State Department of Early Learning and Basic Education, to advance and sustain a school feeding coverage to cowl learners in each primary and secondary schools.
According to Muhanda, faculty meals have multiple benefits, such as extended school enrolments and attendance, as nicely as a extensive contribution to hunger discount and vitamin improvement.
Although the government assumed full funding of the programme in October 2018, the World Food Programme (WFP) continues to grant capacity improvement guide for each country wide and county governments to improve its implementation.