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The Garden Route school & its teachers going the extra mile to feed its learners
”With the food I get from school I manage to eat during the day”
The food programme at Phakamisani Primary School includes rice, vegetables and pilchards. Photo: Siphokazi Mnyobe / GroundUp
About 800 learners are fed twice a week, with food including pilchards, samp, rice and vegetables.
The Western Cape Education Department provides the food and pays the kitchen staff but the petrol to take the food to the learners is bought by the teachers, says the principal.
For some learners this is the only meal they will eat during the day. ....

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