Dangote Pledges $100m to Tackle Malnutrition in Nigeria

• Dangote Pledges $100m to Tackle Malnutrition in Nigeria

The Aliko Dangote Foundation has pledged to invest $100m over five years to tackle malnutrition in the worst-affected parts of Nigeria.

The foundation made the pledge at the recently concluded Global Nutrition Summit 2017, held in Milan, Italy, which brought together governments, international agencies, foundations, civil society organisations and businesses to accelerate the global response to malnutrition, an underlying cause of nearly half of all global child deaths.

The summit is the global forum of the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition (2016-2026). This year’s edition was held in close partnership with a number of international stakeholders, including the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development, World Health Organisation, Food and Agriculture Organisation of the UN, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the International Coalition on Advocacy for Nutrition.

The governments of Ethiopia, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Zambia all made commitments to expand their nutrition programmes and the summit succeeded in galvanising $3.4bn, according to the organisers.