DUBAI: Dubai Cares (DC), the UAE-based philanthropic organisation founded in 2007 by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, launched on Sunday a four-year Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) programme in Ghana which will improve the education and health of over 320,000 primary school aged children and the livelihoods of over 80,000 households.
There are still 69 million children around the world who not go to school.
The programme, which receives up to Dhs10 million (USD2.7 million) in funding from Dubai Cares, will be implemented by the organisation with Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and will support the Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP), a poverty reduction initiative launched in 2005 by the Ghanaian government.
The Homegrown School Feeding programme represents a sustainable and integrated alternative to providing school meals to children while supporting economic activity in rural areas.
He added how “the programme will not only benefit schoolchildren, but marginal rural communities as well.”
