Editor,

While I agree that parents should have some input in ensuring the success of the schoolchildren feeding programme in the 12-Year Basic Education schools nationwide – even though most of our people live from hand to mouth (or from garden to mouth) –, for now, the government should pick up the bill.

I think it is not too expensive to afford so long as this food will be for our kids and not for some teachers to sell on open market.

Secondly, I don’t have kids in school but I can afford to donate ten tonnes of maize each year for five years. So let the Ministry of Education open up a store (for whomever is interested to help) at each school and an account in the bank for some Good Samaritans among us who don’t have gardens but can afford a little more than an ordinary citizen who can’t feed his entire family.

Mwakenya

Reaction to the story, "School feeding programme gets off to a shaky start” (The New Times, October 18)