Day 120: Global Child Nutrition Month

April is Global Child Nutrition Month and a perfect time to plant a few seeds of change. Global Child Nutrition Month is observed annually to heighten awareness of childhood hunger. In 2009, the World Food Program estimated that as many as 350 million of the world’s children suffer from poverty and hunger. The goals and ideals of Global Child Nutrition Month are to acknowledge that global hunger can be overcome by combining the will and resources of individuals and organizations. Freeing children from hunger allows them to become self-supporting and contributing citizens and is a step toward building a stable and peaceful world.

Global Child Nutrition Month provides a unique opportunity to demonstrate social responsibility and help increase awareness of global child hunger issues

The World Food Program estimates that as many as 350 million of the world’s children suffer from poverty and hunger; freeing children from hunger allows them to focus on their education.

In the United States, too, we suffer from unhealthy eating habits among a large percentage of our population. One in three children, today is obese and already showing early signs of type II diabetes and 60% already have one risk factor for heart disease.

While the last cold days of winter slowly fade to spring, those at the Global Child Nutrition Foundation turn their sights on a month long celebration of the world’s children. Their mission is to expand opportunities for the world’s children to receive adequate nutrition for learning and achieving their potential.

The Global Child Nutrition Foundation was created in 2006 with the mission of expanding opportunities for the world’s children to receive adequate nutrition for learning and achieving their potential. It continues and expands upon the work of the Global Child Nutrition Forum, formerly conducted by the School Nutrition Association (SNA).  Created in 1946, SNA advocates healthy nutrition for every child in the United States.

Global Child Nutrition Foundation is dedicated to helping countries develop and operate successful, sustainable, school feeding programs. GCNF provides training and education to support the development of community-based school feeding programs that respond to the nutritional needs of children, while considering local cultural and community values.

Global Child Nutrition Foundation holds an annual Forum focused exclusively on advancing child nutrition internationally through effective and sustainable school and community-based feeding programs. Their most recent Forum was held in Accra, Ghana.

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