The Richest African man Aliko Dangote’s Foundation has pledged to invest US$100 Million over five years to tackle malnutrition in the worst-affected parts of Nigeria.
Aliko Dangote, the founder and Executive Chairman of the Dangote Group. made the pledge at the just concluded Global Nutrition Summit 2017 held in Milan, Italy.
Zouera Youssoufou, CEO of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, said “Nigeria’s high malnutrition rate is undermining progress towards improving child health and survival and putting the brakes on economic development.”
The event convened governments, international agencies, foundations, civil society organisations and businesses to accelerate the global response to malnutrition, an underlying cause of nearly half of all global child deaths.
The Global Nutrition Summit is the global forum of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition.
The Global Summit highlighted the cost of malnutrition to both societies and individuals. The Global Nutrition Report 2017 launched at the Summit, showed that despite progress, 155 million children globally are stunted and the world is off track on meeting internationally agreed nutrition targets.
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