MPs propose Sh30 billion feeding programme for public primary school children

Ofafa primary school children are served lunch under school feeding program on Tuesday 17, February, 2015.Old Nairobi estates schools along Jogoo road are experiencing unusual high number of children dropping out of school. PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE

Nairobi: A parliamentary committee is considering an amendment to education laws to make sure that the over 8.3 million children in all public primary schools are fed by the Government.

The ambitious plan, to be modelled along the free school-milk programme of the 1990s, will see children in 21,718 public primary schools get all their meals in schools.