The provision of school lunches has driven up attendance rates as well as raised performance and attentiveness in the hinterland, where an improvement in the overall nutritional diet of the more than 16,000 children benefiting has also been noticed, according to a recent World Bank assisted study.
The results of the community-based school feeding programme’s impact evaluation were released yesterday at the local World Bank Office via video conferencing with officials in the US.
The feeding programme targets 138 primary schools in the hinterland regions. How-ever, only 92 schools are actually providing school lunches on a
