{"id":14098,"date":"2022-10-18T19:03:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T19:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/?p=14098"},"modified":"2024-11-04T19:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T19:05:21","slug":"minister-emily-gogra-attends-a-crucial-meeting-on-free-school-meals-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/?p=14098","title":{"rendered":"Minister Emily Gogra attends a crucial meeting on Free School Meals, in Finland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Emily K. Gogra, the dynamic Deputy Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, has ably represented Sierra Leone at \u201cthe First Ministerial Meeting of the School Meals Coalition &#8211; Helsinki 2022\u201d during which she delivered an eloquent presentation feelingly touching on the needs of Sierra Leonean children. She explained to her audience the steps government is taking to help address some of those needs and highlighted areas in which development partners could assist the process.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that the government of H.E. President Julius Maada Bio is working, assiduously, with relevant international partners, across the globe, in its determined bid to support and sustain all areas of the national policy endeavour, including the School feeding programme.<br \/>\nJoint efforts along that line are considered to be particularly desirable during this grave period of global cost of living crisis.<\/p>\n<p>The school feeding programme is a welcomed means to ensure a sustained and healthy school attendance and to help strengthen the government\u2019s overall Human Capital Development policy initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week a solid contingent of Sierra Leonean ministers and senior departmental officers attended an intensive three-day Sierra Leone-Finnish summit in Helsinki, which closely looked into various areas of potential cooperation between the two countries, including key sectors such as Healthcare, Fishery, Tourism, School Meals and Teacher Training programmes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14100 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-2-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-2-1.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-2-1-300x140.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-2-1-768x358.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-2-1-580x270.jpeg 580w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-2-1-860x401.jpeg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14101 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-3-1.jpeg 965w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-3-1-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-3-1-768x401.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-3-1-580x303.jpeg 580w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-3-1-860x449.jpeg 860w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-14102 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-13.jpeg 523w, https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-10-31-at-20.30.55-13-300x266.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Emily K. Gogra, the dynamic Deputy Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, has ably represented Sierra Leone at \u201cthe First Ministerial Meeting of the School Meals Coalition &#8211; Helsinki 2022\u201d during which she delivered an eloquent presentation feelingly touching on the needs of Sierra Leonean children. She explained to her audience the steps&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14098"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14105,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14098\/revisions\/14105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.slhc-uk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}