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Integrated health and school feeding intervention in Fadama L.E.A. Primary School, Takum LGA, Taraba state. Nigeria

Purpose of Intervention:

Project Mission: Enhance school enrolment, retention and completion thereby having increase academic performance and increase literacy level in the school in Fadama primary school Takum LGA.

Target Group: The beneficiaries of the project are the school children, teachers and community members

Before intervention: No school kitchen, poor nutrition and hygiene, no school toilet

During Intervention: Construction of school kitchen, provision of lunch for school children, assessment of health and nutrition status of the school children, construction of school toilet.

Progress: 300 school children are benefiting from the project with the provision of lunch and drugs for minor ailments

Challenges: The challenges during the implementation of the project are: poor road network bad, network coverage, lack of cooperation by some of the communities.

Solution: Awareness and sensitisation

Target: The project is targeting the low school enrolment, attendance, poor nutrition status of school children and unhygienic environment.

Effective: The intervention will enhance school enrolment, retention and completion thereby having increase academic performance, literacy level and well nourished children in Fadama LEA Primary School, Takum LGA, Taraba State.

Health: There is provision of drugs for children with minor ailments, nutrition and health status of pupils assessed, established first aid point.

Education: Increase in school enrolment

Employment: Employment opportunity was provided to the community members as volunteer cooks.

Best practices Assessment, provision of food items

Model strategies Community sensitization, advocacy, training