The overall vision of school feeding programmes are for children to be healthy and well nourished, happy and eager to attend and complete their basic education in a friendly, attractive and stimulating learning environment. The education objective of the programme is to increase school enrolment, retention and completion. 

Launched in 2006 by the Federal Government as a pilot programme, the O'MEALS Programme is in operation in all the 31 local government areas of Osun State and it is intended to increase enrolment in public schools to improve the educational achievement of pupils being catered for over time.

School Enrolment Status, Nigeria

Nigeria's Demographic and Health Survey states that of the one million school-age children in Osun, that only half of them are currently enrolled in school, with a striking balance between the number of females and that of males in all the local government areas except in Ilesa-West in which the female-male ratio is 56:100.

Increasing Enrolment in Osun State, Nigeria

The effect of Osun State's school feeding programme on enrolment has been measured and shows that an increase from 144, 519 to 155,318 pupils by a rate of approximately 7.5% was felt within its first year. In 2013 the new figure was put at over 240,000 pupils in 1,382 public schools throughout Osun State which represents an encouraging 31.5% increase.