School Feeding Plan is already underway in Cesar schools

The School Feeding Program, PAE, awarded by the Government of Cesar, which will be executed in the department during the current school year, will benefit 98,450 students from the 24 municipalities that are not certified in education.

The firms Unión Temporal Alimentos del Norte and Unión Temporal Alimentar RA will have the responsibility of supplying the food rations.

Northern Foods, with a budget of $28,091 million, will cover 12 municipalities in the northern part of the department, benefiting 364 educational centers, in which 53,855 daily rations will be delivered.

For its part, Alimentar RA, a firm awarded a contract worth $20.648 million, will be in charge of the PAE in 12 municipalities in the southern part of the department, where 435 educational centers will be served with the daily delivery of 44,595 rations.

The Department’s Secretary of Education, Pamela García, explained that in order to select the educational institutions that will benefit from the PAE, four targeting criteria were taken into account: single-day schooling, meaning that their class schedule runs from 6:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; students from indigenous areas, primary school, and location in a rural area.

The execution period for both contracts will be 150 days for institutions that have single-day students and 96 days for regular-day campuses.

Recently, the Attorney General’s Office reiterated the call to departmental leaders to fully comply with the start of the School Feeding Program (PAE) for 2023, guaranteeing its operation in a timely and quality manner throughout the territory. national, from the first day and throughout the academic calendar.

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