The Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) has encouraged parents and guardians to help with feeding issues in senior high schools.
Primus Baro, National Secretary of CHASS, told JoyNews in an interview on Wednesday, January 8, 2025, that the situation was dire and the parents must provide some support.
He revealed that food supplies were not reaching the schools, and in some cases, they were relying on the old practice of sending students what they had.
According to him, the situation is particularly severe in schools in northern Ghana.
“I encourage parents, and I have already advised my PTA to this effect, to let their children bring food like gari, shitor, and sugar to supplement whatever the school provides. I urge parents across the country, as the food situation has still not improved in the past two and three years, and it has worsened at this particular time,” he said on JoyNews’ Newsdesk on Wednesday, January 8.
“Food supplies are not reaching the schools. In places like Upper West, Upper East, and the Northern regions, apart from rice, the schools have no stable food supplies. Oil is completely unavailable. For example, in my school, I currently don’t have a single drop of oil, so my matron has been using margarine to replace oil for cooking. I don’t have maize or beans—only rice and some gari,” he added.
“We are still relying on the old practices of sending students with what they have, and that’s the only reason we allowed the students to return. Otherwise, the situation is still far from ideal.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
