CDF supported lunch program in Bondo to be pegged on performance beginning 2024

Bondo, Tuesday June 6, 2023

KNA by Brian Ondeng

 Bondo Constituency Development Fund lunch program support for students in secondary day schools will from next year be pegged on individual students’ performance.

This was revealed by Bondo MP Dr Gideon Ochanda who stated CDF committee has moved to restructure the support for lunch program to improve performance of students in secondary day schools in the region.

Bondo CDF previously paid Sh6000 annually for all students in secondary day schools as their parents pay the remainder to cater for lunches in the schools.

This year however, the CDF has paid Sh50 million for the lunch program that will benefit the 5000 candidates in secondary day school with each receiving Sh10,000.

Addressing the press at Got Abiero secondary school, Ochanda who is also the CDF patron disclosed that the current universal support for students lunches has not yielded improvement in day secondary schools performance as expected forcing them to revise the structure of support.

"From next year only students who will be posting grade c and above in the end term tests will be supported by the CDF lunch program. I am always tasked to explain to the CDF board what difference the lunch program for all students make in terms of performance but I find it difficult to answer. Instead of registering improved performance, students in secondary day schools have dropped performance," Ochanda regretted.

"Secondary day school students have to work twice as harder as their boarding counterparts because they lose so many hours. Actually they waste hours equivalent to a whole term and that is why we began supporting lunch programs in schools because most parents could not afford the Sh12000 annually," he remarked.

Courtesy ; K. N. A