The Ministry of Education yesterday advised the withdrawal of an essay competition asking children about how they had benefited from the free breakfast provided to them.
The withdrawal came after negative comments about it on social media.
While lauding the Edutrition’s Unit’s Breakfast for Success programme, the ministry said that the essay competition “may have inadvertently overlooked the sensitive nature of the issue and its potential impact on the students involved. The Ministry’s paramount duty is to make sure that the best interest of each child is always served and would revise its programme if there is even a small likelihood that said interests can be jeopardized”.