GOVERNMENT WON’T BE taking over the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) Breakfast Club for schoolchildren anytime soon, if at all.
Minister of Social Care, Constituency Empowerment and Community Development Steve Blackett says the Freundel Stuart administration simply cannot afford such a responsibility at this time.
Last week, YWCA president Marilyn Rice-Bowen said her organization was looking forward to the time when Government took over and expanded the four-year-old programme which currently provides breakfast for 1 000 primary and secondary school students.
Blackett told the SATURDAY SUN yesterday that although the Breakfast Club was “a noble enough venture . . . at this time the government would find it difficult to take on an entire feeding programme that would very much mimic the school meals service by providing meals on a daily basis to children. (DP)
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