The Lagos State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), recently held a five day training for food handlers drawn from the Local Government Education Authority across the state.
The programme themed, ‘Quality Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle during Covid-19 Pandemic’, was aimed at strengthening their capacity to effectively carry out their duties hygienically and efficiently while ensuring that they serve the pupils food by mid-day everyday of the week.
The Executive Chairman of the board, Wahab Alawiye-King who declared the programme opened, said the theme was apt considering the present reality, adding that the application of the principles of environmental sanitation, personal hygiene and established food safety practices, cannot be over emphasised.
The Executive Chairman emphasised on the national home grown school feeding programme, a social intervention initiative of the federal government to promote social protection where pupils in primary one to three in public primary schools are given one nutritious meal per day.
He commended the federal government for its commitment towards the initiative in Lagos saying, it has continued to increase enrolment and retention rates of pupils in public books and also helped to improve their nutrition and health status.
Alawiye-King recalled that the feeding programme had commenced in the state last year, but it was abruptly halted due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic and the closure of schools.
He said the board was in talks with the ministry of humanitarian affairs and Disaster management to ensure that all the vendors go round all the schools in the state
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