{"id":358691,"date":"2017-10-03T11:47:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T11:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=358691"},"modified":"2017-10-03T11:47:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-03T11:47:39","slug":"nana-addo-promises-one-student-one-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/nana-addo-promises-one-student-one-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Nana Addo promises one-student, one-chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that his government will soon roll out a programme that will see every school going child from basic to the secondary level enjoy free chocolate every day.<\/p>\n
According to him, this will boost local consumption of cocoa products.<\/p>\n
Speaking at this year\u2019s World Cocoa Day celebration in Kumasi which coincided with the 70th\u00a0<\/sup>anniversary celebration of the establishment of the Ghana Cocoa Board, President Akufo-Addo said the government had already received support from some international chocolate companies to kick start the exercise.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is for this reason that the Ministry of Agriculture through COCOBOD, the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection through the school feeding programme, and the Ministry of Education through the Ghana Education Service, are to ensure the sustained provision of cocoa beverages and chocolates to school children from primary school to secondary level,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The President further explained that \u201c\u2026[our] target is to provide every Ghanaian student with a bar of chocolate or cocoa beverage each day whilst in school.\u201d<\/p>\n This he said \u201chas been given the needed impetus by some manufacturing companies who have agreed to support the programme.\u201d<\/p>\n