MONROVIA, LIBERIA-Education Minister, Dr. Jarso Jallah, has launched School Connect, a digital platform tracking school feeding, attendance, enrollment, food supply, and consumption nationwide.

 Speaking at the launch in Monrovia, Dr. Jallah said real-time data would improve accountability, nutrition oversight, and faster educational responses.

She disclosed that government funding for school feeding increased from one million to one point eight million dollars this year.

The MOE Boss said Liberia aims to provide school meals for forty-five percent of primary students nationwide by 2029.

The minister emphasized that School Connect must strengthen ministry systems, improve local capacity, and support long-term national sustainability.

She praised the World Food Programme for supporting digital innovation while respecting Liberia’s push for stronger government ownership.

Meanwhile, WFP Country Director, Agbessi Amewoa, hailed School Connect as a major step toward improving Liberia’s school feeding programme. Speaking during the launch, Amewoa said,” Digital reporting would strengthen transparency, accountability, and evidence-based educational decision-making nationwide”.

He explained that manual reporting systems previously caused delays, inaccuracies, and weak responses within Liberia’s school feeding programme.

Amewoa announced that School Connect will expand from seventy-five pilot schools to 324 schools across five counties.

He said,” WFP provided tablets and computers to strengthen the ministry’s monitoring systems and improve nationwide school feeding management”.

Amewoa reaffirmed WFP’s commitment to supporting Liberia’s transition toward a sustainable, government-owned, and technologically advanced feeding programme.