{"id":208923,"date":"2025-10-04T19:26:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-to-roll-out-feeding-scheme-for-110000-children-at-ecd-centres\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:26:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T17:26:56","slug":"namibia-govt-to-roll-out-feeding-scheme-for-110000-children-at-ecd-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-govt-to-roll-out-feeding-scheme-for-110000-children-at-ecd-centres\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Govt to Roll Out Feeding Scheme for 110,000 Children At ECD Centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>The Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare will roll out a nationwide feeding scheme reaching over 110 000 children across 3 866 early childhood development (ECD) centres.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The initiative was announced by gender minister Emma Kantema on Thursday during a Cabinet committee briefing at the Government Information Centre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">&#8220;As a ministry, we are committed to ensuring that children not only survive but thrive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">&#8220;Nutrition, early stimulation, safety and adequate learning opportunities during the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510030073.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare will roll out a nationwide feeding scheme reaching over 110 000 children across 3 866 early childhood development (ECD) centres. The initiative was announced by gender minister Emma Kantema on Thursday during a Cabinet committee briefing at the Government Information Centre. &#8220;As a ministry, we are committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":208924,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11717,7371,52486,13318,4357,4706,724,257,10962,11079,254],"class_list":["post-208923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-centres","tag-children","tag-ecd","tag-feeding","tag-govt","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-roll","tag-scheme","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}