{"id":2972,"date":"2024-05-18T07:12:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/?p=2972"},"modified":"2024-05-18T07:12:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T07:12:24","slug":"withdrawal-of-the-school-feeding-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/withdrawal-of-the-school-feeding-program\/","title":{"rendered":"WITHDRAWAL OF THE SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Benmike Wekesa<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Over 4.5 million students who are current beneficiaries of the school feeding program to seek alternative  to cater for their needs or they will be forced to stay hungry in schools in the upcoming financial year. Dr. Belio Kipsang pleads with members of Parliament to restore the financing.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1162\" src=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-61.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-61.png 1600w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-61-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-61-1024x744.png 1024w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-61-768x558.png 768w, https:\/\/tandaomedia.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/image-61-1536x1116.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Dr. Belio Kipsang recent presentation to National Assembly&nbsp; about the yearly budget revealed a bunch of eye opening&nbsp; facts, leaving un-answered questions. Why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The National treasury&#8217;s decision to deny the Ministry of Education&#8217;s&nbsp; request for an extra 1 billion shillings to extend a program from schools in arid and semi arid lands to those in urban slums is causing quite a stir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The free&nbsp; junior school education program is also facing a setback in funding stated:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.A deficit of 15.4 billion shillings<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2.Nation wide&nbsp; strike by jss&nbsp; teachers staging a demand of employment on pensionable terms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benmike Wekesa Over 4.5 million students who are current beneficiaries of the school feeding program to seek alternative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.11 - 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