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Molly is a teenage girl who receives a meal from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) every day at school in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. This slum is one of the poorest places in the world, but this daily meal means Molly comes to school and has the nutrition she needs to succeed once she's in the classroom. Molly Video spread on front page of Huffington Post ImpactX.
Corn fields of Terrabona town, north Nicaragua October 11, 2012. The United Nation's World Food Programme (WFP) accompanies the Nicaraguan government's efforts to eradicate malnutrition and ensure basic human rights its citizens. Picture taken October 11, 2012. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas
The Ministry of local Government and Rural Development is taking steps to develop a National School Feeding Policy that aims to sustain and secure the programme. The Ministry in collaboration with Partnership for Child Development (PCD) and the World Food Programme (WFP) is currently soliciting inputs from experts and target groups for the development of the proposed policy. The Ghana National School Feeding Programme (GNSFP) has been running over the past eight years without a policy, and presently being governed by a programme document.
Molly is a teenage girl who receives a meal from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) every day at school in the Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. This slum is one of the poorest places in the world, but this daily meal means Molly comes to school and has the nutrition she needs to succeed once she's in the classroom. Molly Video spread on front page of Huffington Post ImpactX.
If you set out to help eradicate poverty, what would be your weapon of choice: more access to books or food? (…)"If you care about the poorest, you care about agriculture," Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, said earlier this year during a speech to the International Fund for Agricultural Development, World Food Programme and Food and Agriculture Organization. "Investments in agriculture are the best weapons against hunger and poverty, and they have made life better for billions of people. The international agriculture community needs to be more innovative, coordinated, and focused to help poor farmers grow more. If we can do that, we can dramatically reduce suffering and build self-sufficiency," said Gates.