Oghoro stated this in Asaba, yesterday while declaring open a one day capacity building workshop on school-based Organic Farms and Gardens organised by Delta State Committee on Food and Nutrition in collaboration with the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education for 30 agricultural science teachers drawn from 30 public schools across the state.
He commended the ingenuity of UNICEF for the sponsorship of the workshop as well as its notion for people to always eat the right amount of nutrients in food meals, adding that educating teachers on the importance of food nutrition was a critical step towards achieving UNICEF goals.
Oghoro stated that the effective collaboration with UNICEF had resulted in several projects and programmes sponsored by it in the state, such as the fight against malnutrition and end open defecation among others.
