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| Janet Museveni |
Ms Museveni advised parents to buy food flasks so that pupils can eat food when it is hot.
"What I don't agree
with is packing lunch in banana leaves and children eat it cold as
lunch. You can buy small flasks for packing lunch so that these children
can have it hot," she stressed.
She continued:
"Waking up in the morning, cooking katogo [usually mixture of matooke
and beef or beans or cassava and beans] and putting it in a flask, what
is hard with that?"
She was speaking at
the launch of Phase II of the Literacy Achievement and Retention
Activities (LARA) at Muriisa Primary School in Ntungamo District on
Tuesday.
However, last
week's curricular by the ministry of Education to all chief
administration officers, district education officers and Resident
District Commissioners across the country, says provision of lunch to
all learners in public schools has been made compulsory as a requirement
for better learning environment. The guidelines require all head
teachers to agree with their respective school management committees on
an affordable way of ensuring that all learners are fed while at school.
Ms Museveni added
that she knows there are families that can't afford paying fees but at
least they have what to eat at home and can pack food for their
school-going children.
Responding to the
Ntungamo District education officer, Mr Oddo Arigye's comments that most
parents can't afford packing lunch for their children, Ms Museveni
said: "A parent, really? Someone who has given birth or is still giving
birth and says he cannot pack lunch for children is useless."
She further
criticised parents for abandoning their responsibilities and putting
every burden on the government and ever suggesting that the children are
for the government and [President] Museveni.
She, however, said they instead like marrying them off young to get cows and goats.
Ms Museveni further cautioned teachers against corporal punishments, saying some maim children.
US Ambassador to Uganda Deborah Malac urged communities to keep the girl-child in school.
She said many were dropping out before completing secondary level.
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