The review period was most exciting for the School Feeding project with the launching of the Back to School campaign. In the Greater Kapoeta, relative calm has helped reduce the number of people facing extreme food insecurity as food items could be moved from one place to the other (availability) and prices stable. This notwithstanding, food insecurity still persists and an estimated 691,000 people (67% of the population) are likely to be facing Crisis (IPC Phase 3) or worse acute food insecurity until the middle of September 2021 when the green harvesting has fully set in.

Under the circumstances, the School Feeding project continued its pursuit of objectives through lining up a number of activities in both Kapoeta North and Kapoeta South. The review period was an exciting one with education sector taking tentative steps in adoption of COVID 19 measures. Under the theme, Education Cannot Wait, CODAID   School Feeding program took part in drumming up support for the schools in the coming term.

CODAID   seek to increase or maintain enrolment, retention, concentration of children in studies that produces a gain in cognitive development of children. As its contribution to the national education goal, the School Feeding objectives are; a) To promote enrolment, attendance and retention of children in supported schools and b) To promote child education by eliminating hunger as a reason not to attend school. CODAID   is building on the momentum created from the stakeholder’s engagement campaign meetings as well as the initiated school gardens to put a thrust on the activities. This report summarises the activities and achievements for the month of September 2021, their successes, failures, challenges, and recommendations and gives the plans for the month of September 2021.