Aliko Dangote Foundation has pledged to
expend $100 million over the next five years to tackle malnutrition in the
worst-affected parts of Nigeria.
The Aliko Dangote Foundation’s
Managing Director and CEO, Zouera Youssoufou, disclosed this during the just
concluded Global Nutrition Summit 2017, in Milan, Italy.
The event was attended by government
officials, 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.
According to Youssoufou, through his
foundation, since 1993, Aliko Dangote has made significant social investments
in health, education, economic empowerment and disaster relief.
She noted that malnutrition affects
every country in the world in various forms, adding, however, that Africa was
particularly hard hit and Nigeria, home to the highest number of malnourished
children.
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