{"id":52304,"date":"2022-08-31T19:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/?p=52304"},"modified":"2022-08-31T19:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:24:43","slug":"dangote-foundation-kano-government-sign-mou-to-check-malnutrition-among-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/dangote-foundation-kano-government-sign-mou-to-check-malnutrition-among-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote Foundation, Kano government sign MoU to check malnutrition among children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Aliko Dangote Foundation Integrated Nutrition (ADFIN) Project has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with Kano State government to check the prevalence of malnutrition in the state.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event took place at ECA Unit of Abdullahi Wase hospital in Kano on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking before the official signing of the MoU, The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Aliko Dangote Foundation, \u00a0Zouera Yousufou said the foundation is worried about the prevalence of malnutrition, especially among children in the state.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the foundation had already supported the feeding programme by Hajiya Mariya Dantata, where about 30,000 meals are distributed daily.<\/p>\n<p>She also stated that part of the foundation&#8217;s commitment towards checking malnutrition is the distribution of 20,000 loaf of bread daily in Kano, and 10,000 in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that part of the signing of the MoU is the commitment \u00a0of over N50 million to procure Ready To Use Therapeutic Food, RUTF for treatment of children with Severe Acute Malnutrition, SAM, in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The MD\/CEO also said the RUTF will be produced by a company based in Kano and to reach each household of the vulnerable children with it intervention.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, &#8220;The primary focus of Aliko Dangote Foundation is nutrition which wraps around interventions on health, education and empowerment<a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on this, we are now making unprecedented investment to improve nutrition in our country<a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews24.ng\">.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We intend to treat the children with Severe Acute Malnutrition, SAM using RUTF which was produced right here in Kano by a sister company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aliko Dangote Foundation Integrated Nutrition (ADFIN) Project has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with Kano State government to check the prevalence of malnutrition in the state. The event took place at ECA Unit of Abdullahi Wase hospital in Kano on Wednesday. Speaking before the official signing of the MoU, The Managing Director and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.6 (Yoast SEO v22.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dangote Foundation, Kano government sign MoU to check malnutrition among children - Daily News 24 - Latest Nigerian News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Aliko Dangote Foundation Integrated Nutrition (ADFIN) Project has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU with KN to check malnutrition\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailynews24.ng\/dangote-foundation-kano-government-sign-mou-to-check-malnutrition-among-children\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dangote Foundation, Kano government sign MoU to check malnutrition among children - 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