The Ghana National School Feeding Programme (GNSFP), an educational intervention policy initiative brought about by the erstwhile Kufuor-led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government in 2005, is to help increase school enrolment and attendance, and retention of pupils in the most deprived communities of the country, reduce short-term hunger and malnutrition among schoolchildren, as well as boost domestic food production in, especially, poverty-stricken rural communities in Ghana.
Looking at the core missions of the programme, the focus is on the rural schoolchild who, by most standards, is poor and needy, and therefore, requires some kind of intervention to be able to concentrate on his books and to come out with the best of performances.
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