Children in The Gambia go to school on hungry bellies, JollofNews found out.
The deepening nutritional and food insecurity that the country wallows in are increasingly threatening the cognitive development of children, JollofNews discovered.
Dwindling household incomes and rising food prices have forced several Gambian families to curtail the number of meals served.
One meal a day is what some families can afford, our findings showed.
Meanwhile as households groan under the yoke of soaring food prices, children continue to bear the brunt.
They do not only suffer food woes at the home level but there currently exists no school feeding program to plug the gap.
An investigation by JollofNews has revealed some weight loss, emaciation and stress in some of the school children surveyed.
