[ 2017-01-16 ]

Kufuor foundation partners Millennium Promise Alliance to fight hunger
The John Agyekum Kufuor Foundation has signed a
memorandum of understanding with the Millennium
Promise Alliance aimed at reducing hunger in
Ghana. According to the World Food Program only 1
out of 3 children suffering from malnutrition
receive adequate medical attention while 24
percent of all child mortality cases in Ghana are
associated with under-nutrition.

Addressing the press at the signing ceremony at
the residence of the former president, Special
advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General
and Board Chairman of the Millennium Promise
Alliance Prof. Jeffrey Sachs said the partnership
will help Ghana to achieve Sustainable Development
Goals through enhancing the problem-solving skills
of youth leaders with information technology.

“The Millennium Promise Alliance has had several
projects in Ghana. We want to work in practical
areas of leadership where the Foundation has taken
the lead.” “We discussed youth leadership and
we have agreed that in 2017 we will hold a
worldwide conference in Accra as part of our joint
partnership of young leaders promoting the
Sustainable Development Goals. We will be working
on agricultural initiatives, information
technology initiatives, nutrition initiatives,
health care initiatives, and generally to work
together to promote the SDGs.”

Ex-president Kufuor in his address underscored the
need for strong partnerships to equip the youth of
Ghana in transforming Africa through information
technology. “We need very strong partners to
leap-frog into the mainstream of the rapidly
advancing. With a man like Prof. Jeffrey Sachs as
a partner, we know we are onto a good thing.

I believe our youth have gotten the basic
education and knowledge that will enable them use
the extension of technologies that is needed to
help in transforming our society to set an example
in the neighbourhood of our continent.” “Our
continent at large is felt far behind at large.
But this continent should be the continent of this
century. And we can only catch up with the rest of
the world when we use the partnerships offered to
us through the agencies of the United Nations ad
similar institutions”

Source - citifmonline.com

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