The Impact of the School Feeding Project on the lives of Primary School Pupils in Kakua Chiefdom, Bo District.

Abstract The study investigated the impact of the school feeding project on the lives of primary school pupils in Kakua chiefdom, the school feeding project has a significant impact on learners’ academic performance, and the findings revealed positive results on pupils' enrolment and improvement of their academic performance at school, and there has been an increased performance of pupils after the commencement of the school feeding project. A mixed-method approach was used, with ninety-one questionnaires issued and received from education officers, principals, teachers, students, and parents. The data was captured using the Census and Survey Programme (CSPro) and later exported to SPSS for further descriptive analysis. Moreover, the school feeding project has greatly helped to reduce the dropout of pupils from the school, and has also helped to increase student interest and regularity in school as a result, parents have been encouraged to send their children to school. Findings show that rice and garri are being served and sometimes the varieties of food change. Despite all these positive impacts of the school feeding projects, there are numerous challenges affecting the sustainability of the project, such as inadequate funds from the government, infrastructural, and ineffective monitoring and evaluation of the project, and the quality and quantity of food served is also another problem. However, some recommendations were given to help strengthen the sustainability of the project, it was recommended that there should be effective monitoring and evaluation of the project, schools should set a management committee for efficient and effective management of the project, the community should participate positively in any community development programme which will be introduced to their area like school feeding programme, policy makers should make policy that is practical and pupils’-oriented and administrators should ensure that school feeding programme is effective to all regions in which the programme has been introduced.