Kofi Asare, Executive Director of Africa Education, has highlighted the challenges of food shortages in Senior High Schools (SHS) across Ghana. In a recent media engagement, Asare revealed that while some food items are still available, there is a shortage of essential food stocks necessary for meal preparation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asare attributed the shortages to difficulties within the political system, which have impacted the food supply chain. He explained that many schools allocate their funds to purchase perishable items like fish and meat, leaving a shortage of staple items like bread, which students are accustomed to consuming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The poor transformation of food supply, according to Asare, is a major challenge facing SHS institutions. He welcomed the NDC government’s commitment to addressing this issue by placing the SHS food supply under the Ghana Education Service’s oversight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Asare’s concerns echo the need for a comprehensive review of the feeding component of the Free SHS policy to ensure that students have access to nutritious meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Food Shortages Hit Senior High Schools: Kofi Asare Calls for Review<\/p>\n
Kofi Asare, Executive Director of Africa Education, has highlighted the challenges of food shortages in Senior High Schools (SHS) across Ghana. In a recent media engagement, Asare revealed that while some food items are still available, there is a shortage of essential food stocks necessary for meal preparation.<\/p>\n
Asare attributed the shortages to difficulties within the political system, which have impacted the food supply chain. He explained that many schools allocate their funds to purchase perishable items like fish and meat, leaving a shortage of staple items like bread, which students are accustomed to consuming.<\/p>\n
The poor transformation of food supply, according to Asare, is a major challenge facing SHS institutions. He welcomed the NDC government’s commitment to addressing this issue by placing the SHS food supply under the Ghana Education Service’s oversight.<\/p>\n
Asare’s concerns echo the need for a comprehensive review of the feeding component of the Free SHS policy to ensure that students have access to nutritious meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4255,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4250\/revisions\/4255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}