 Stakeholders through the senior special assistant to the president on school feeding program Dr. Yetunde Adeneji has stressed that public-private partnership is one of the ways of securing financial support for school feeding in Nigeria. Adeneji disclosed these at a stakeholder strategic meeting in Abuja. She said that it is crucial to acknowledge the importance of school feeding program and its significant impact on the education, nutritional and overall development of children across the continent. She said that implementing and sustaining these can be quite challenging due to financial constraints and resource limitations. Every society and every community. So development partners that are here, stakeholders, private sector, they are all gathered here to see how best to come up with ways to help improve the program and also help collaborate with government because we can't do this alone. Government cannot do this alone. We all have to walk together, come together to see how best to help government to be able to help our nation and that is where we are here today for this program. Now what we're looking at is ensuring that children are off the streets and into the classrooms. The Al-Majri's are on the streets. We want them to come back into the classrooms and start to learn. We're not only looking at Al-Majri children, we're looking at children who are also in IDP camps. We're looking at children with disabilities. We're looking at all these demographs and trying to see how we can inculcate them into the program because they also need to learn. They also need to be off the streets. We want to have a society where we would thrive. Crime rates will reduce because most of these children, they live life of crime. They go into all sorts. So we're trying to see how we can bring them out and make them better people in the society. Manuel, director general, department of state services, Al-Majri, Yusuf, BG, represented by deputy director, critical programs agencies and department, Nekabush, expressed support for the program, stressing that it is a sure foundation for the future of our children. The issues of development, developmental issues and security have a symbiotic relationship where we have improved development. The issues that emanate the security concerns and challenges we have are highly minimized. So that is why the service under the leadership of Al-Yusuf Magaji, which is fully committed to supporting such laudable projects like the homegrown school feeding program. We understand and appreciate that at that level, we need to get the young ones in schools so that they are no longer vulnerable to criminals who would like to exploit their vulnerabilities and continue to, you know, exacerbate security issues that we have at the local level. So it's important for us as a service to give the kind of support that we have always given. We are here to continue to strengthen that collaboration with government, you know, as part of government, so to say, to ensure that our country is better off for it. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.