Gain and Dubai Cares Launch a Comprehensive Two-Year School Feeding Program in Bangladesh ; Partnership Addresses the Critical Link Between Nutrition and School Performance

U.S. Newswire › November 30, 2010

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Nov. 30, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move to increase child health and nutrition in Bangladesh, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Dubai Cares, the UAE-based philanthropic establishment launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop and implement in Bangladesh a school feeding program to address the needs of low-income families. Limited access to adequate nutrition and education co-exists widely across Bangladesh, especially in high food-insecure areas such as flood- affected and remote rural regions where children live on a diet which is deficient of energy, protein and micronutrients. Nutritious school meals encourage poor households to send their children to school and to help keep them there. This is critically important in a country like Bangladesh where less than half of children attain functional literacy.

The two organizations will provide primary school children living in low income families with a variety of fortified foods on a sustained basis. The program will use a centralized food preparation model in combination with low cost interventions such as nutritional supplementation, provision of offsite processed foods and snacks, nutrition education, de-worming and capacity building of educators and policymakers.

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Gain and Dubai Cares Launch a Comprehensive Two-Year School Feeding Program in Bangladesh ; Partnership Addresses the Critical Link Between Nutrition and School Performance

At the signing of the MoU, Tariq Al Gurg, CEO of Dubai Cares said, "Children make up 25 per cent of the one billion people hungry or undernourished in the world today. The impact of the ...

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