{"id":1221100,"date":"2022-10-11T09:19:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/video-free-shs-students-served-raw-gari-with-soup-as-lunch-makes-ghanaians-cry\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T09:19:22","slug":"video-free-shs-students-served-raw-gari-with-soup-as-lunch-makes-ghanaians-cry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/11\/video-free-shs-students-served-raw-gari-with-soup-as-lunch-makes-ghanaians-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Free SHS students served raw gari with soup as lunch makes Ghanaians cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-31374\">\n<div class=\"td-post-content tagdiv-type\">\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"386\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1665479962_517_Screenshot-2022-10-11-at-7.15.21-AM-696x386.png\"   alt=\"Free SHS students served raw gari with soup as lunch makes Ghanaians cry\" title=\"Free SHS\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Free SHS students served raw gari with soup as lunch makes Ghanaians cry <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<h2><strong>As a consequence of widespread food shortages, kids in senior high schools in Ghana are consuming less healthful fare.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>After the introduction of the Free SHS program, several institutions found themselves seriously under-resourced to maintain normal operations.<\/p>\n<p>Schools report that this has led to crowded dorms and the provision of Tugyimi rice with \u201cprisoners\u2019 soup\u201d for lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Many people\u2019s hearts have been damaged after seeing a video that blogger Kobby Kyei posted online.<\/p>\n<p>At St. Paul\u2019s Senior High School SPACO and Minor Seminary in Hatsukorpe, it was an eyesore (Ketu South).<\/p>\n<p>Already malnourished, these pupils are shown sitting down to a meal of gari with thin soup that includes just one fish for 10 people.<\/p>\n<p>When compared to the number of pupils seated at the table, the quantity of food served was bad. Their features betrayed their feelings of despair and hunger.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"DE8FYeKk34w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This is what Free SHS students dey eat o ei Yesu \ud83d\ude30\ud83d\ude28\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DE8FYeKk34w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<div class=\"td-block-row td-post-next-prev\">\n<div class=\"td-block-span6 td-post-prev-post\">\n<div class=\"td-post-next-prev-content\"><span>Previous article<\/span>Unless God consider on Judgment Day: Netizens fire Rev Obofour\u2019s wife for drinking alcohol and dyeing her hair<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>  <span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"author\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Kofi Anokye, PhD\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2022-10-11T07:33:22+00:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"dateModified\" content=\"2022-10-11T07:35:39+00:00\"\/><meta itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"mainEntityOfPage\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/WebPage\" itemid=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/video-free-shs-students-served-raw-gari-with-soup-as-lunch-makes-ghanaians-cry\/\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"publisher\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Organization\"><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"logo\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/NEW-BBC-e1587657736248.png\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"BBC Ghana Reports\"\/><\/span><meta itemprop=\"headline \" content=\"VIDEO: Free SHS students served raw gari with soup as lunch makes Ghanaians cry\"\/><span class=\"td-page-meta\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/thebbcghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Screenshot-2022-10-11-at-7.15.21-AM.png\"\/><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"699\"\/><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"388\"\/><\/span> <\/footer>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free SHS students served raw gari with soup as lunch makes Ghanaians cry As a consequence of widespread food shortages, kids in senior high schools in Ghana are consuming less healthful fare. After the introduction of the Free SHS program, several institutions found themselves seriously under-resourced to maintain normal operations. 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