The Greater Accra Regional Coordinator of school feeding programme, Christiana-Lovia Nkansah, says the secretariat has settled all arrears to caterers.
A third of the number is, however, in the process of being paid in order to ensure the smooth feeding for pupils under the programme.
Using her jurisdiction as an example, Mrs Nkansah commended the caterers for the zeal with which they have started this term.
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She told Adom FMÂ that her monitoring since the school reopened shows that only one out of 800 schools had not started feeding the pupils.
She added that all caterers who have payment challenges should visit the school feeding secretariat for it to be resolved.
A school feeding caterer at La Madina-Nkwantanang Basic School, Yaa Douduwaa, applauded the School Feeding Secretariat for increasing the feeding fee to GHC1 and also organizing training for caterers across the country for the first on nutrition and food hygiene.
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The Ghana School Feeding Programme (GSFP) has been in implementation since 2005 in the context of the Comprehensive African Agricultural Development Programme (CAADP) Pillar III and in response to the first and second Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on eradicating extreme poverty and hunger and achieving universal primary education.
The GSFP is a continuing investment that nourishes children and decreases food insecurity while contributing to the achievement of the first four SDGs.
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The program further creates the opportunity to bring both girls and boys into school by ensuring that they are free from hunger to enable them to concentrate and focus on learning which critical steps in the education process are.