Malnutrition and hunger heals the whole world, leading hundreds of millions of people suffering and putting a great threat of security in the world. Access to good nutrition is the establishment of progress. Without it, children cannot reach their full potential, physically or cognitively. As a result, the economies were discouraged and less productive, the poverty covered and spreading.
Women and women cannot be affected. A billion girls and girls around the world suffered malnutrition because they usually eat at the end and least. It has a generation effect that is passed by malnutrition from mother to baby. Maternal nutritional improvement is critical to arrest global malnutrition and build a healthier and more secure world.
As former progression ministers from total political division, we are united Day in the world Now to prompt leaders here in the UK and around the world to make the mother and child nutritional priority.
The child’s nutritional funds, pioneering the UK government, presents a way of targeting, treating and contraction of philanthropies and stirring resources. Fund is a vehicle to ensure that women can access antenatal large micronutrient supplements, one of the most effective health treatments available. They will greatly improve the opportunity of life by reducing birth complications, improve newborn health and ensure that children’s development will receive the nutrients they need. Individuals, communities and countries benefit decades.
If leaders are serious about setting a path in a strong world where people can be saved and developed where they live, maternal nutrition is a good place to start.
Valerie Amos Secretary of State for International Progress, May-October 2003; Parliamentary at the bottomSecretary, FCo., June 2001-May 2003 (labor), Lynne Featherstone Parliamentary at the bottomSecretary, Department for International Development, September 2012-November 2014 (Liberal Democrat), Liz suggestion Parliamentary at the bottomSecretary, department for internaTional progress / FCDO, April 2019-November 2020 (conservative)
