In a heartbreaking video, first year students of the Aggrey Memorial Senior High School were introduced to the harsh realities of insufficient food in the school.
The first year students who had gone for what is presumed to be their first dinning hall meal were met with an announcement which shook them.
The students who were beginning a new chapter of their life in Senior High School were told by their dinning hall prefect, “It is unfortunate that our food is not enough. As sir had told you earlier we have no food at the store room.”
“The (head)master is in Accra now fighting for food for our own benefit,” he added while pleading with his colleagues to manage the little food available to them.
The dinning hall prefect optimistic of his headmaster being able to secure food for his students added, “we promise you that very soon there will be enough food for us so that we can all enjoy ourselves.”
This is not an isolated case but the current situation in Senior High Schools across the country. Students do not get enough food to eat and their meals do not even contain the required nutrients for proper growth and development.
The Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) has encouraged parents to provide their children with enough provisions for school.
According to the conference, this is to help with the feeding challenges in SHSs.
He stressed that food supplies were not reaching the schools and in some cases, they were relying on the old practice of sending students what they had.
“I encourage parents, and I have already advised my PTA to this effect, to let their children bring food like gari, shito, and sugar to supplement whatever the school provides. I urge parents across the country, as the food situation has still not improved in the past two and three years, and it has worsened at this particular time.
Watch video below:
This is a school in the Central Region; a Dining Hall Prefect informs first year students of the insufficient supply of food. #JoySMS pic.twitter.com/jBskg0gQid
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