Eradication of Malnutrition in Early Childhood Care Education through School Feeding Programme in Nigeria
Adegbite, Peter Ibrahim
Department of Educational Foundation
Federal University of Kashere, Gombe State
Email: princepeter220@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
This paper described school feeding program as a tool for eradicating malnutrition, reducing hunger in children and increasing enrollment of school age-children in various society of the world. The paper further
discuses some of process of providing food for school children during school hours in order to enable them meet their nutritional requirement. Furthermore, this paper also discuss some of the challenges faced by this
SEPs and make some recommendations for further studies. Some of these recommendations are: to develop targeting criteria, analyze and identify appropriate guidelines for ration composition, and to build a consensus on a policy and objective that focuses on how school feeding can effectively contribute to nutrition, education and health of school age children
