What about our school children

Jan 28, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

The present Government is building houses for the less fortunate which is commendable, but what’s the point of building houses while the children are going to school hungry bellied and can’t mentally take-in what is being taught to them. Food prices have sky-rocketed to unprecedented proportions, some even doubled within the last six months or so.

I am pleading with this Government, as all Guyanese parents should, to think of our school-aged children and to start building eating places adjacent to or near the school where our children can have breakfast (the most important meal of the day) and lunch. These meals do not have to be elaborate. Cereal/cornmeal porridge with milk and a banana/any fruit for breakfast and lunch could be a locally grown vegetable e.g. balanjay, bora, ochroes, cabbage, (all without meat) with rice, split peas cook-up, black-eye cook-up, vegetable cook-up, dhal+fry fish, etc). An alternating two-week menu would encourage for kitchen gardens/ers to sell their produce to the school’s cafeteria. Everyone could and will benefit. Mr. President, I plea ‘with you’ to implement the above ASAP so that our children may be saved from malnutrition and/or any other malfunction of the body.

Sincerely

Gloria Holder

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