{"id":74710,"date":"2020-12-15T12:23:56","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?post_type=media-center&#038;p=74710"},"modified":"2022-10-14T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T18:36:08","slug":"world-vision-commits%e2%80%afus500-million-to-fight-global-malnutrition%e2%80%af","status":"publish","type":"media-center","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/about-us\/media-center\/world-vision-commits%e2%80%afus500-million-to-fight-global-malnutrition%e2%80%af","title":{"rendered":"World Vision commits\u202f US $500 million to fight global malnutrition\u202f"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-push-8&Prime;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Highlights<\/h2>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-highlights field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<ul>\n<li><strong>World&#8239;Vision will commit $500 million of private funding&#8239;to tackle malnutrition&#8239;over the next five&#8239;years&#8239;and&#8239;will also allocate&#8239;an additional&#8239;$700m&#8239;in&#8239;nutrition grant-funded&#8239;programmes.<br>\n<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The aid agency&rsquo;s investment&nbsp;will mean that more than 1 million children&nbsp;will avoid malnutrition.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime; el_class=&rdquo;vc_col-sm-pull-4&Prime;][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;74711&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; add_caption=&rdquo;yes&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][vc_column_text]<strong>(December 14, 2020) &mdash;<\/strong> World Vision International&rsquo;s President and Chief Executive Officer, Andrew Morley, today&#8239;committed&nbsp;<strong>$500 million<\/strong>&#8239;to flight malnutrition,&nbsp;and&#8239;told&nbsp;global nutrition leaders that eliminating malnutrition &ndash; especially for women and girls &ndash; is a top priority for the organization.<\/p>\n<p>Morley&nbsp;made&nbsp;the&#8239;announcement as&#8239;part of the&#8239;<a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionforgrowth.org\/n4g-year-of-action\/\">Nutrition 4 Growth Year of Action<\/a>&#8239;launch&#8239;hosted by the Governments of Canada and&nbsp;Bangladesh,&nbsp;attended&nbsp;by&nbsp;and featuring&nbsp;key&#8239;aid sector leaders&#8239;such as&#8239;Henrietta H. Fore, Executive Director of&nbsp;UNICEF, and&nbsp;Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;As a child-focused organization,&#8239;World Vision refuses to accept the current status quo of child malnutrition globally,&rdquo;&#8239;Morley said. &ldquo;Good nutrition is an essential foundation for health and development, yet malnutrition&#8239;is still&#8239;the single-biggest contributor to under five child&#8239;mortality.&nbsp;World Vision is determined to work towards a future in which children dying of malnutrition is a thing of the past. If we&nbsp;join&nbsp;together, we will succeed. This, I promise you&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We&#8239;know from bitter experience in 100 countries that malnutrition steals so many young children&rsquo;s lives, and diminishes lifelong potential for hundreds of millions more, with a disproportionate impact on girls.&#8239; We can and must do more to ensure children achieve their God-given potential.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Women and girls are most affected by poor nutrition globally, &ldquo;empowering them is a game-changing solution for eliminating malnutrition,&rdquo; he&#8239;added.<\/p>\n<p>Other commitments made by the organization included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Treating 500,000 children for malnutrition.<\/li>\n<li>Reaching 200,000 people with programmes that&#8239;equip&#8239;caregivers to prepare locally sourced nutritious food.<\/li>\n<li>Providing&#8239;supplementary feeding for 250,000 pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.<\/li>\n<li>Leveraging&#8239;184,000&#8239;World Vision-supported&#8239;community health workers to reach the most vulnerable households with nutrition counseling.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Morley&#8239;stressed&#8239;he was particularly proud that World Vision&rsquo;s nutrition programs would be addressing the interconnections between nutrition, gender&#8239;equality, women&rsquo;s empowerment and child well-being by continuing to develop, scale up and promote the&#8239;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvi.org\/stories\/world-vision-view\/want-really-effective-malnutrition-programming-get-transformative\">Gender-Transformative Framework for Nutrition<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>About <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wvusstatic.com\/www\/uploads\/2017\/03\/www.worldvision.org\"><strong>World Vision<\/strong><\/a><strong>:<\/strong><br>\nWorld Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice. 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