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Prez. Kufuor calls for more action to end Malnutrition
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor is calling for intensified efforts on the part of government and other stakeholders to deal with the problem of malnutrition.
He says with over a quarter of children under five in Ghana suffering from malnutrition according to World Food Programme statistics, there is the need for more to be done to tackle the problem.
Mr. Kufuor who is also chairman of the John A. Kufuor Foundation was speaking when Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan – the World Food Programme’s Special Adviser to Mother and Child Health and Nutrition – paid a courtesy call on him at his residence in Accra.
Mr. Paul Kiernan who is a World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Board Member and Permanent Representative of Ireland to the three Rome-Based food agencies, also accompanied the princess.
The meeting afforded the WFP team the opportunity to discuss with the former president what the programme is doing to remedy the high numbers of malnourished people.
The WFP team is in Ghana to appraise itself on progress of work on various programmes to help tackle malnutrition.
The two were accompanied by officials of the John A. Kufuor Foundation including Chief Executive Officer, Prof. Baffour Agyeman – Duah and Nana Ama Aning Oppong – Duah who is Policy Advisor at the foundation.
Mr. Kufuor is a former WFP Global Ambassador against Hunger and lead convenor of the Zero Hunger Strategic Review in Ghana. The Kufuor Foundation is currently implementing various projects to help deal with the problem of malnutrition including the Ghana Zero Hunger Strategic Review Project.