Published: 2016 February 07 07:13:19 (6006 Views)

THE cash strapped Zimbabwe government will in coming weeks start providing meals to school pupils countrywide to shield them from drought-induced hunger and to promote high nutrition levels, a State controlled weekly has reported.

According to the Harare based Sunday Mail, government is also implementing multiple strategies to sufficiently feed needy communities following indications that the number of vulnerable people might double from the previously projected 1, 5 million between January and March 2016.

Yesterday, Primary and Secondary Education Minister Lazarus Dokora said authorities would soon give school children at least one meal per day to save them from starvation

This programme, he said, will largely be funded by community share ownership trusts in resource-rich areas. US$200 million will be required to feed the four million-plus pupils across Zimbabwe.



- Sunday Mail

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