School breakfast pilot launched in East Coast schools

Nursery School students enjoying their snack of biscuits and juice as part of the national School Feeding Programme. (Photo courtesy of Ministry of Education)

Over 600 students from schools along the East Coast Demerara are now benefiting from the Ministry of Education’s breakfast programme as part of a feasibility study being conducted for the expansion of the national School Feeding Programme (SFP).

The Ministry of Education launched the programme on April 3rd and hopes to examine the feasibility of implementing it in schools along the coastal region, where there are no in-school cooking facilities.

With this study, it is expected that the accumulation of data relevant to cost, nutritional adequacy and