School feeding initiative raises Sh2m

Dr Margaret Makelo the wife to Bungoma County Governor Ken Lusaka. She is planning to set up a ujimix flour factory to help nursery schoolgoing children be fed porridge to reduce cases of malnutrition and encourage the reading culture. (PHOTO: TITUS OTEBA/STANDARD)

More than Sh2 million has been raised to help provide porridge to needy nursery school children in the county.

The effort, dubbed Skip a Lunch Initiative, targets to raise Sh7.5 million for the construction of a posho mill. The project seeks to fight against malnutrition among children and to provide sanitary towels to school girls.