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WFP Team Pays Courtesy Call on First Lady to discuss Nutrition

A team from the World Food Programme visiting Ghana has paid a courtesy call on First Lady Rebecca Akufo – Addo to discuss how to tackle malnutrition.

Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah Zeid of Jordan, the World Food Programme’s Special Adviser to Mother and Child Health and Nutrition, is leading the delegation which is on a three-day visit to Ghana.

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 first lady what the programme is doing to remedy the high numbers of malnourished people..

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. Peter Musoko, Deputy Regional Director of the WFP, Dakar, Senegal, and Ms. Rukia Yacoub, Representative and Country Director, Accra, Ghana; were also part of the delegation.