A growing concern has surfaced in the country’s senior high schools, with food shortages becoming persistent.

Primus Baro, the National Secretary of the Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS), recently shared a call for parents to support schools in light of the food crisis.

Speaking on JoyNews’ Newsdesk on Wednesday, January 8, Baro shed light on the situation, emphasizing the dire need for additional support from parents and guardians.

“I encourage parents, and I have already advised my PTA to this effect, to let their children bring food like gari, shitor, and sugar to supplement whatever the school provides,” Baro said.

“I urge parents across the country, as the food situation has still not improved in the past two and three years, and it has worsened at this particular time.”

The issue has become particularly severe in regions like Upper West, Upper East, and the Northern regions, where schools are facing significant challenges in maintaining adequate food supplies.

According to Baro, these schools are now relying on a handful of basic food items such as rice, with many staple ingredients like oil, maize, and beans unavailable.

“Food supplies are not reaching the schools. In places like Upper West, Upper East, and the Northern regions, apart from rice, the schools have no stable food supplies. Oil is completely unavailable,” he explained.

He gave a firsthand account of the situation in his own school. “For example, in my school, I currently don’t have a single drop of oil, so my matron has been using margarine to replace oil for cooking. I don’t have maize or beans—only rice and some gari,” Baro disclosed.

This stark reality underscores how schools are scrambling to make do with what little they have, relying on ingenuity to provide meals for students.

Baro expressed his frustration with the ongoing situation, pointing out that despite the efforts to address the crisis, many schools are still facing the same, if not worse, conditions.

“We are still relying on the old practices of sending students with what they have, and that’s the only reason we allowed the students to return,” he added. “Otherwise, the situation is still far from ideal.”

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