Togo Launches €11M School Meal Program for Kara and Savanes Regions

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Friday, 18 April 2025 17:29

Togo Launches €11M School Meal Program for Kara and Savanes Regions

(Togo First) - Togo launched a new Home Grown School Feeding (HGSF) project in Kara on Thursday, April 17, 2025. Valued at €11 million, or about CFA7.2 billion, the program targets 36,000 children in 130 schools across the Kara and Savanes regions.

The German government funds the project through KfW, and the World Food Programme (WFP) supports its rollout.

The Agence Nationale d'Appui au Développement à la Base (ANADEB) coordinates the effort. The project focuses on areas affected by the Sahel security crisis.

The HGSF project links nutrition, education, and local development. The program buys food from small farmers and women’s cooperatives to strengthen local value chains.

It also rehabilitates school kitchens, installs improved stoves, creates educational gardens, and sets up food processing units. The project provides inputs and training for 8,250 small producers and 1,000 women processors.

“This project illustrates our ambition for inclusive economic transformation, based on food sovereignty and rural development,” Minister Abdul-Fattah Fofana said.

The HGSF’s launch strengthens the National School Feeding Programme (ProNAS), part of the government’s 2020-2025 Roadmap.

ProNAS already operates in 783 schools and serves more than 173,000 pupils. The government plans to reach 300,000 children by the next school year, according to ANADEB.

This article was initially published in French by Ayi Renaud Dossavi

Edited in English by Ange Jason Quenum

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