1,500 bookman of Oserian Primary School , a public school , will now benefit from the flower farm ’s feeding programme that has kicked off in Naivasha . A cup of nutritive uji ( porridge ) for breakfast and a plate of food for dejeuner is a bountiful relief to students and parents who no longer need to fight for these two meals , provided as part of the flower exporters CSR programme .
The excited pupil articulate they are happy for get a spicy cup of uji and a red-hot lunch move over that in the past they had to make do with cold food carried from rest home , those who could n’t carry a meal skipped lunch while others reported cases of food lead unsound .
Oserian Administration Director Mary Kinyua said the school feeding programme is part of the fellowship ’s contribution to the success of the Government ’s bragging 4 Agenda – food security and Education – by continue well fed children in schooltime so they could pore on training . She disclosed that a needs judgement name the eating programme as a gap requiring interference . Due to various reasonableness , some of the pupils die to school without breakfast and a few skipped lunch sham performance . The alimentation also aim at promote enrollment in shoal because when small fry are insure of a meal , they will go to school day .
of late last class , Oserian unveil a fresh axis of eight classes , constructed to prepare for an conceive of increase in school going children population as the firm ’s industrial car park takes shape . It is gestate that the issue of people living in the Oserian village will soar upwards to about 20,000 from the current 11,000 as investor take up space at the business Mungo Park .
Chef Richard Lang’at who is in kick of the programme said prey children is one of the good contributions a line can make to biotic community evolution . He added that parents of the school , most who wake up at 4 am to organise for work no longer have to worry about breakfast and lunch since the ship’s company has ask the burden off their minds and pockets . The breakfast will be serve between 6.30- 7 am before lessons startle at 8 am .
Some Ksh 13 million has been put aside for the feeding , part contribute to by the farm ’s partners , through the FairTrade bounty .
Education is a key mainstay of Oserian Development Company community of interests support programmes , under the Flowers for Schools tag . The others are Food Security , Health and Nature .
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