How Sh30 feeding programme has improved enrolment in Kajiado school

Athi River GK Prisons primary school in Kitengela, Kajiado County has registered improved learners’ enrolment due to the ongoing feeding program, deputy head teacher Nancy Ledama has said.

Ledama said the school has since the project’s takeoff in October 2023 registered an improved enrolment to the current 2, 000 learners, up from 1,500.

Parents contribute Sh10 a day to the school feeding programme while Cup of Uji, a not-for-profit organisation, pays Sh20 a day. Each child is served hot and nutritious food for Sh30 daily.

Ledama also noted improved performance in the learners’ academic and co-curriculum activities, attributing it to the program. The five–year pilot project at the school is being implemented by the Cup of Uji organization with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation.

“We have achieved a positive index towards the enrolment in our school since we got this programme. We were as low as 1,500 learners, we are now 2, 000 in enrolment,” Ledama told reporters at the school on Thursday.

“Learners’ health has also improved as opposed to what it was earlier before the programme was introduced to this school. The majority couldn’t participate in the co-curriculum activities; they didn’t have much energy.”  Read more here