{"id":4475,"date":"2024-10-02T13:14:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4475"},"modified":"2024-10-02T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:14:12","slug":"first-lady-feeding-program-disrupts-learners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/?p=4475","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;First Lady Feeding Program Disrupts Learners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Political Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent event hosted by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in Chikomba district, Mashonaland East province, has sparked controversy after it disrupted learning at local schools. The event, a feeding program for pupils from early childhood development (ECD) to Grade 4, was held at Hokonya Primary School, with learners and teachers bussed in from various schools across the district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>School authorities instructed students to arrive at the venue as early as 6am and bring their own food to prevent hunger before the First Lady&#8217;s meals were served. The irony of this instruction was not lost on some parents and guardians, who expressed disgruntlement over the disruption of lessons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Event Details<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Learners were required to bring a plate and 500ml of water<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Learners were to be dressed in tracksuits, while prefects wore normal school uniforms<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Buses were provided to ferry pupils from schools to the event.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Parental Concerns<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One parent posted in a school WhatsApp group, &#8220;What is the benefit of disrupting learning for a single meal when the pupils do not even know what they will have for dinner?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another concern raised was the need for a concrete long-term solution to provide food for all children, especially in the face of the ongoing drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Government Response<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response to the drought that has left millions facing starvation, the government rolled out a school-feeding program when schools opened for the third term.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s clear that while the First Lady&#8217;s intentions may have been good, the execution of the event has raised questions about the impact on learning and the need for sustainable solutions to address food insecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Zim GBC News\u00a92024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Reporter A recent event hosted by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in Chikomba district, Mashonaland East province, has sparked controversy after it disrupted learning at local schools. The event, a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4475\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zimgbcnews.co.zw\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}