World Food Programme is distributing food to student girls in Western Bahr el-Ghazal to keep them in school.
Girls from grade three onwards receive a daily ration for breakfast to eat at school and a ration to bring home, SCR News correspondent reported.This allows girl students to contribute to their family income without reducing their time for studying.
The so called Girls Incentive Programme aims at preventing girls’ dropout from school.
The program is open to girls who can prove an attendance of 22 days per month.
WFP is supporting the Western Bahr el-Ghazal Ministry of Education since June by providing food to be cooked in the basic schools.
The programme aims at increasing school enrolment, especially in the rural areas.
On another development, ACTED and UNICEF are digging pit latrines and boreholes at Western Bahr el-Ghazal schools since the begging of the year.
The last intervention was in Wau schools to prepare the premises for the national school tournament that runs from November 27 up to mid-December.