Moi - but free food will be expensive - plate of githeri per kid assume even 30shs per plate.
Typical year has 160-180 - 170 school days.
30shs times 170 times 10 million primary kids is 51B kshs.
Assume half the kids go to private schools.
So typically budget of 25-35B - maybe 30B kshs.
So doable....if only it's restricted to Githeri or Rice & beans.
And it will create maybe 3-4 cooks per school - so can create 100,000 jobs.
There will be firewood and food suppliers...
Certainly it will have huge impact in poor families
Kids will remain in school, will concentrate and it great example of bottom up.
Lots of time is wasted in public school - running to and back from lunch - with parents have to standby for lunch cooking.
That is why many people prefer boarding schools
I would avoid milk if it goes to profit Brookside and few dairy companies.
Rather than milk - give the kids rice and beans. Githeri will be hard to cook.
Ugali is okay. But if firewood is not a problem - Githeri is doable.
Balance diet of starch,protein and vegetable doable.
Go for it - you maybe need budget of 30B kshs - which is wasted by KQ.
And it's a clear bottom up approach.
Each school will be given capitation for a kid ...170 times 30...equivalent of 5000kshs per year per kid.
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Are all kids that attend public schools from poor families and are those that attend private schools from rich families?
Anyway, I see another big flop like the free laptops scheme. That one died like a dodo even after Pundit defending it here like it was the game changer Kenya had been waiting for in the last 60 years. We have been there before with free lunch schemes for schools and all died a natural death. This too will die the same way.
Btw, it would be good such schemes if at all to be devolved. A national solution to hunger can never work in Kenya. One Aden Duale will get the contract to supply the ministry of education with maharagwe and Anne Waiguru to supply the mahindi. We all know how the story will end.Moi - but free food will be expensive - plate of githeri per kid assume even 30shs per plate.
Typical year has 160-180 - 170 school days.
30shs times 170 times 10 million primary kids is 51B kshs.
Assume half the kids go to private schools.
So typically budget of 25-35B - maybe 30B kshs.
So doable....if only it's restricted to Githeri or Rice & beans.
And it will create maybe 3-4 cooks per school - so can create 100,000 jobs.
There will be firewood and food suppliers...
Certainly it will have huge impact in poor families
Kids will remain in school, will concentrate and it great example of bottom up.
Lots of time is wasted in public school - running to and back from lunch - with parents have to standby for lunch cooking.
That is why many people prefer boarding schools
I would avoid milk if it goes to profit Brookside and few dairy companies.
Rather than milk - give the kids rice and beans. Githeri will be hard to cook.
Ugali is okay. But if firewood is not a problem - Githeri is doable.
Balance diet of starch,protein and vegetable doable.
Go for it - you maybe need budget of 30B kshs - which is wasted by KQ.
And it's a clear bottom up approach.
Each school will be given capitation for a kid ...170 times 30...equivalent of 5000kshs per year per kid.
Now that's making sense.
Will create thousands of jobs.
As long as maize rice beans njahi green grams are supplied from local farmers that's nice...it can boost farming even large scale like galana kulalu.
As long as all supplies are at market price not exhorbitant rates.good progress.
Next should be to give every child school uniform sourced from local textile companies at county level and cotton supplied from local farmers.it would boost agriculture and textile manufacturing.
SOCIAL CAPITALISM.
Local tailors should continue to stitch school uniform.
I had a friend (killed with his brother in land dispute) - he was slightl disabled, after primary he became tailor and got so successfully he had 5 tailors stitching school uniforms.
There is local tailoring and schoe making economy that we need to keep.
Capitation is all that is needed.
Determine the average cost.
Then give school the money.
County textile and such cloth industries - should be taken to EPZ for export.
Make LAMU and Mombasa free ports - and allow SEZ to operate from there.
Invalid Tweet IDNow that's making sense.
Will create thousands of jobs.
As long as maize rice beans njahi green grams are supplied from local farmers that's nice...it can boost farming even large scale like galana kulalu.
As long as all supplies are at market price not exhorbitant rates.good progress.
Next should be to give every child school uniform sourced from local textile companies at county level and cotton supplied from local farmers.it would boost agriculture and textile manufacturing.
SOCIAL CAPITALISM.
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Officially dispatched 56,570 packets of milk to be distributed to all ECDEs at Cheswerta ECDE, Township ward, this afternoon.#BarchokTanoFresh pic.twitter.com/87utOJCiQo
I think our key focus should be local demand not export driven.
We have about 32,000 primary schools X 300 pupils each X 0.05 Grams per child per day X 20 Days a month X 9 months a year That would translate to about 30 Million Tonnes of grains (combined rice maize beans njahi grams).
The issue would be how do you build local production 30MN Tonnes per year?The logistics (Warehousing Storage Transport IT systems plants and machinery) It would create leaps and bounds.
Interns of Textile.If we have about 6MN pupils in primary schools..That would create demand of between 500K tonnes of cotton annually.
When you look at these two,The potential is for LOCAL DEMAND NOT EXPORT based which fluctuates with global markets.Thats how nations like USA develop...Government gives food stamps/tickets for locally produced food or essentials and spurs demand.
You're talking nonsense.
Kwani saa hii kids are not in uniform or feeding.
This is just supporting local poor kids and local economy.
Dont get over-excited. This boosting local economy kidogo.
School to buy maize and beans from parents...and firewood.
When it come to textile - then you're talking creating jobs - millions of jobs
And this is where EPZ and AGOA kicks in.
We need to do it LAMU ASAP
Jobs can only happen if we focus on export - otherwise local poor economy cannot create jobs beyond certain limit.I think our key focus should be local demand not export driven.
We have about 32,000 primary schools X 300 pupils each X 0.05 Grams per child per day X 20 Days a month X 9 months a year That would translate to about 30 Million Tonnes of grains (combined rice maize beans njahi grams).
The issue would be how do you build local production 30MN Tonnes per year?The logistics (Warehousing Storage Transport IT systems plants and machinery) It would create leaps and bounds.
Interns of Textile.If we have about 6MN pupils in primary schools..That would create demand of between 500K tonnes of cotton annually.
When you look at these two,The potential is for LOCAL DEMAND NOT EXPORT based which fluctuates with global markets.Thats how nations like USA develop...Government gives food stamps/tickets for locally produced food or essentials and spurs demand.
One Aden Duale will get the contract to supply the ministry of education with maharagwe and Anne Waiguru to supply the mahindi. We all know how the story will end.
QuoteOne Aden Duale will get the contract to supply the ministry of education with maharagwe and Anne Waiguru to supply the mahindi. We all know how the story will end.
Isn't this the fundamental problem with African economies? We make nothing that is worth exporting. It's all about getting a corrupt government tender and becoming a supplier. This cannot continue to work especially as the population keeps getting larger. At a minimum, Africans need to start manufacturing at least for the local East African Market and then expand from their.
This is what has gotten Sri Lanka into trouble (too many imports and not enough local manufacturing)
And firewood? Seriously? cutting down more trees? how is this even viable?
Isn't this the fundamental problem with African economies? We make nothing that is worth exporting. It's all about getting a corrupt government tender and becoming a supplier. This cannot continue to work especially as the population keeps getting larger. At a minimum, Africans need to start manufacturing at least for the local East African Market and then expand from their.
This is what has gotten Sri Lanka into trouble (too many imports and not enough local manufacturing)
And firewood? Seriously? cutting down more trees? how is this even viable?
but if it dispersed to 25,000 primary schools - Duale will not
Quotebut if it dispersed to 25,000 primary schools - Duale will not
Dispersed how? Someone has to "disperse" it and this is where the corruption comes into play. The only way for these people to become rich is by using the corrupt tender process and that's why they can never get rid it. It's the ONLY thing they have. What else is manufactured in Kenya? phones? Car parts? Tv's? heavy machinery?
It's a typical 3rd world economy (agriculture and tourism before covid)
I just don't see the economic answer for sub-saharan africa (maybe subsidize fertilizers so they can at least increase their food yields and not die from starvation)
You're talking nonsense.
Kwani saa hii kids are not in uniform or feeding.
This is just supporting local poor kids and local economy.
Dont get over-excited. This boosting local economy kidogo.
School to buy maize and beans from parents...and firewood.
When it come to textile - then you're talking creating jobs - millions of jobs
And this is where EPZ and AGOA kicks in.
We need to do it LAMU ASAP
Jobs can only happen if we focus on export - otherwise local poor economy cannot create jobs beyond certain limit.I think our key focus should be local demand not export driven.
We have about 32,000 primary schools X 300 pupils each X 0.05 Grams per child per day X 20 Days a month X 9 months a year That would translate to about 30 Million Tonnes of grains (combined rice maize beans njahi grams).
The issue would be how do you build local production 30MN Tonnes per year?The logistics (Warehousing Storage Transport IT systems plants and machinery) It would create leaps and bounds.
Interns of Textile.If we have about 6MN pupils in primary schools..That would create demand of between 500K tonnes of cotton annually.
When you look at these two,The potential is for LOCAL DEMAND NOT EXPORT based which fluctuates with global markets.Thats how nations like USA develop...Government gives food stamps/tickets for locally produced food or essentials and spurs demand.
I don't have time for stupid arguments.
i was looking for this thread.
Now sakaja and ruto want to give food to every school going child,next should be uniform and shoes.
The food (grains maize beans njahi farmers) clothes (cotton and factories) shoes (leather industry) should employ alot of farmers
https://nipate.net/index.php?topic=15669.0
I THINK EVERYBODY CAN SEE HOW STUPID YOUR ARE
If administered corruption free, this is good policy.