The Secretary of District Education of Cartagena (SED) reported that the deliveries of industrialized rations to students benefiting from the School Feeding Program (PAE) have been affected since last Tuesday by defaults by operators.
Today there are 106,000 students in 205 schools without receiving food rations.
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The contract is backed by the Mercantile Exchange
This contract involves the Mercantile Exchange, who will have to act in the company of the Cartagena district in verifying the causes mentioned by the operators,
According to the District, the operators Cartagena Express and Por los Niños de la Heroica requested last February 14 to suspend deliveries from Tuesday, February 15 until next Monday, citing non-compliance by their suppliers and effects that they say they have due to the impact of high food prices in the country.
The District Secretary of Education rejected the late notice of the operators and recalled that the arguments expressed do not exempt them from the administrative and contractual decisions applied by the District within the framework of the current contracts.
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Even so, the operator suspended the school feeding service between February 16, 17, 18 and 21, 2022.
“This contract involves the Mercantile Exchange, who will have to act in the company of the Cartagena district in verifying the causes mentioned by the operators, and if it is true that all the alternatives were supplied, and if not, they must be sought as soon as possible, all alternatives must be looked at for the reestablishment of this right to education”, assured Juan Carlos Martínez, director of Food to Learn.
District promises legal action
There is no justification for it being due to non-compliance with prices by suppliers. This is not an issue that has occurred from one day to the next, and nobody forces the operator to have the same provider.
The legal team of the Ministry of Education reported that it is analyzing the situation to provide a timely response and take the legal actions that must be applied to the operators within the framework of the contracts for the provision of school meals.
“There is no justification for it being due to non-compliance with prices by suppliers. This is not an issue that has occurred from one day to the next, and nobody forces the operator to have the same provider. It is working all over the country. We cannot unilaterally be causing problems for children, a contract is not resolved in that way,” said Martínez.
The District asked the Ombudsman and other surveillance and control entities to be permanently integrated into the daily tasks of PAE supervision carried out by the Secretary of Education since the beginning of the school calendar, in the company of the School Feeding Committees, made up of teachers and parents.
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