Finance Minister, Dr. Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, has disclosed that government will increase the daily school feeding allocation for every child from GHC1.50 to GHC2.00.
The Minister says the increment is part of the government’s interventions for the citizenry in its first budget set to be presented tomorrow, Tuesday, March 11, 2025.
According to him, the current situation under the School Feeding Programme is nothing to write home about, saying the budget will address the concerns of the Ministry of Gender and the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP).
Speaking with social media influencer, Kalyjay, during an X Space conversation Sunday, March 09, 2025, indicated that the increment, he believes, would go along way to relieve the caterers of the challenges they face.
“Currently, the government of Ghana pays GH₵1.50 per child. Today, unfortunately, we will agree that this amount is too small and it can’t even buy one egg,” he stated.
“I think I can broadly say that we intend to increase that to a minimum of two cedis per child per day,” he revealed, describing it as a ‘significant increase’, representing at least a 33% rise in the school feeding budget as an index to inflation.
Following his recent engagement with traders at Accra’s Central Business District on Saturday, March 08, Dr Forson assured the public, particularly the youth, that their input would be taken into account in shaping government policies.
The engagement on X, together with the recent one with the market women, was part of the Minister’s initiative to gather concerns to help shape the final draft of the budget.
He assured that the concerns gathered from the information would be adopted in the final document, dismissing the assertion from a section of the public that the engagement were merely symbolic.
