Representatives from 18 Countries Call for Global Support of School Feeding Programs Global Child Nutrition Forum participants issue historic call to

Representatives from 18 Countries Call for Global Support of School Feeding Programs
Global Child Nutrition Forum participants issue historic call to action

National Harbor, Md. (June 14, 2010) – Last week, representatives from 18 countries who participated in the 12th annual Global Child Nutrition Forum issued the following call to action requesting the inclusion of school feeding on the international agenda, including at the African Union Summit next month. The Forum, which brought together the largest gathering of 130 leading international school feeding experts, is a sign of the tremendous global movement afoot to implement school feeding programs.

The Forum is the flagship program of US based Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF), the international arm of the School Nutrition Association. This year, the Forum was cosponsored by the Partnership for Child Development (Imperial College London).