Call for UK businesses to help end malnutrition
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The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) and Unilever have invited UK representatives of leading food and retail companies to meet in London on 27 March 2006.
A new grant to GAIN from The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for US$20 million will be announced at the meeting. Participants in the meeting represent UK members of the Business Alliance for Food Fortification (BAFF) which was launched in Beijing in November 2005. BAFF is a private sector initiative that aims to improve the health and nutritional status of the world's poorest people by distributing affordable fortified foods around the world. The UK companies will consider how to gather support in Europe for projects that aim to reach 1 billion people over the next decade and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. BAFF is a programme of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), a not-for-profit foundation based in Geneva, Switzerland, which includes UNICEF and the World Health Organization as its partners. It has major projects in fourteen countries which are fortifying staple foods such as wheat flour, soy sauce, fish sauce, and vegetable oil. WHERE: Unilever, 5 Tudor St, London EC4Y OJP WHEN: 13.00 – 16:00 Monday 27th March WHO: Marc Van Ameringen, Executive Director, GAIN Paulus Verschuren, Unilever plc, Chairman Business Alliance for Food Fortification (BAFF) Geng Ming, GAIN Regional Manager, South East Asia (Will speak on projects to fortify soy sauce and wheat flour in China) R Sankar, GAIN Regional Manager South Asia (Will speak on food fortification in the Indian sub-continent) |
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