forwarded by Dickens Odhiambo

Monday, September 20 2010 at 20:46
NEW YORK, Monday

The wife of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, Mrs Ida Odinga, on Monday convened the First Ladies of Africa Round table to push for an end to malnutrition among women and children.

The event was organised as part of the opening of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit.

The invitation-only occasion, hosted by Ms Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation and Ms Jay Naidoo of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, brought together First Ladies of Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Côte d’Ivoire.

The African First Ladies signed a declaration with six key goals committing themselves to putting nutrition at the heart of development.

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