Many unemployed rural women in Katsina State have been taken into the formal financial service system by the Federal Government’s Home Grown School Feeding Programme .
Mrs Sheni serves 115 pupils food in primary 1A at Matse Primary School in Kaita. She told PREMIUM TIMES she did not have a bank account until she became a beneficiary of the SIP. She has one now but it rarely has money left in it.Mrs Sheni said three of her children help with the cooking.investigation in the state shows it has recorded significant success, following the continued improvement in its implementation.
The EFInA survey further showed that only 16 million adult women were banked in 2016. This is 33.3 per cent of the total 39.5 million persons that were banked that year. also showed that 55.1 per cent of the financially excluded 96.4 million adult population were women. In 2012, the CBN adopted the National Financial Inclusion Strategy in order to attain its 2010 commitment to reduce the adult financial exclusion rate in the country from 46.3 per cent to 20 per cent by 2020.
The 60-year-old mother of four said she has two staff members who help with chores for which she pays each N50 daily. A motorcycle rider helps with transporting the food.Mrs Lawal, who serves 100 pupils in Primary 3 at Gidado Primary School, Kofar Sauri Katsina Municipal in the state capital, told PREMIUM TIMES she bought two goats last year from the profits she made as a beneficiary.Abubakar Ibrahim, the NSIP state coordinator, explained how the beneficiaries were recruited into the programme.
In some states, the food items are purchased and supplied to the vendors by the state governments. Under such an arrangement, the cooks are only paid “salaries” as their role is to just cook and serve the meals. Mrs Suliaman also appealed to the government to start serving the children normal food on Fridays instead of snacks.
He also said 803,000 pupils were eligible for the school programme but only 334,488 are currently enjoying the free meal programme. The pupil-cook ratio in the state is 88 to one. Health experts said adequate sensitisation and hygienic environment would prevent food poison. The Joint Monitoring Programme for Water and Sanitation of the WHO/ UNICEF noted that only 58 per cent of Nigerians has access to potable drinking water.
Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: THISDAY LIVE - 🏆 14. / 51 Read more »
Source: DailyPostNGR - 🏆 11. / 59 Read more »