{"id":808897,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/808897/?format=json","text_counter":77,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THAT, aware that Article 53(1)(c) of the Constitution guarantees every child the right to basic nutrition, shelter and health; cognisant of the fact that primary school-aged children are at a stage where a child requires nutritional meals for healthy mental and physical development and growth; aware that school feeding programmes have been implemented in Kenya since the 1980s with varying degrees of success, and with heavy reliance on foreign aid and management; noting that the Kenyan Government introduced a home-grown school feeding programme in 2009, a more sustainable and nationally integrated programme by the national Government funded school meals programme through multi-sectoral co-operation; appreciating that the school feeding programme has played an integral part in realising the country’s goal of universal primary education through incentivising the enrolment and retention of children; further noting that the feeding programme targets food inequality in the most vulnerable areas of Kenya, including school districts in the Arid and Semi-Arid Areas (ASAL) and the informal urban slums of large cities such as Nairobi and Mombasa; this House urges the Government to expand the primary school feeding programme to all public primary schools in the country."}