Fact Sheet On Homegrown School Feeding Programme – September 2018 Update

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OVER 9 MILLION PUPILS CURRENTLY BEING FED UNDER THE HOMEGROWN SCHOOL FEEDING PROGRAMME

**26 States now participating in the programme.

**49, 897 schools currently being reached by HGSF.

**95,422 cooks engaged to prepare meals.

The Home Grown School Feeding Programme (HGSF) aims to deliver school feeding to young children with a specific focus on increasing school enrollment, reducing the incidence of malnutrition (especially among the poor and those ordinarily unable to eat a meal-a-day), empowering community women as cooks and by supporting small farmers that help stimulate economic growth.

• The list of 26 States currently on HGSF include: Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo (South East); Akwa Ibom, Cross River and Delta (South South); Osun, Oyo, Ondo and Ogun (South West); Benue, Niger and Plateau (North Central); Kaduna, Jigawa, Kano, Katsina, Zamfara and Sokoto (North West); Bauchi, Gombe, Borno, Jigawa and Adamawa (North East).

• The number of pupils currently being fed through HGSFare 9,300,892 pupils.

• The number of cooks engaged to prepare the meals is 95,422 cooks.

• The number of small-scaled farmers that supply the locally sourced ingredients for the meals is estimated to be over 100,000 farmers.

• The number of public schools currently being reached by HGSF is 49, 897

• The number of States that have cooks that have undergone the food safety and hygiene training for their cooks are 25 States.
• The expansion plan in the coming months includes 4 more States to join by October (Kebbi, Rivers, Nasarawa, Lagos).