Concern as Treasury cuts school feeding funds by Sh600m

Millions of school going children who have been benefiting from the State-backed feeding programme are staring at deprivation after the Treasury proposed to downsize the funding by Sh600 million in the upcoming financial year.

In the freshly-prepared budgetary estimates, the Treasury has proposed to allocate Sh3 billion towards the critical programme that runs in 26 counties that are considered marginalised, down from an approved expenditure of Sh3.6 billion in the current fiscal year ending next month.