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CHARITY OF THE MONTH
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GAIN & PHC
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) was launched at the UN in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Working with partners, GAIN aims at making healthier food choices more affordable, more available, and more desirable.
Eating a balanced diet is vital for our good health and wellbeing. Food provides our bodies with the energy, protein, vitamins, and minerals to live, grow, and stay active. We need a wide variety of different foods to provide the right amounts of nutrients to live healthy and productive lives. However, in many developing countries, healthy foods that are rich in nutrients, like fruits and vegetables, are often too expensive, unsafe or simply not available.
According to Global Nutrition Report, about 88% of countries suffer from two or three forms of malnutrition.
Every day, 815 million people are going to bed hungry, up from 777 million in 2015. 1 in 3 people lack key micronutrients, like iron and vitamin A, needed to grow properly, live active lives, and raise a healthy family. At the same time, 2 billion adults are overweight or obese and 41 million children are overweight.
Malnutrition undermines billions of people’s health and leaves 155 million children stunted every year.
Rapid population growth and climate change pose new challenges to an already broken food system. They believe the food system can be fixed by a collective global effort.
GAIN’s purpose is to improve nutrition outcomes by improving the consumption of nutritious and safe food for all people, especially the most vulnerable.
Working with donors, research institutes and other stakeholders including public and private sector partners to reduce malnutrition globally, GAIN has a responsibility to be accountable to those who make our work possible. GAIN has developed a Framework for Transparency which outlines how they share information internally and externally. Their approach addresses information sharing, privacy and business and governance practices to improve transparency of corporate decision-making through the full, accurate, and timely disclosure of information.
Please help by sending your donations to the PCC Treasurer for Edington Priory Church; Col. Hugh Hancock, Dunge Farm, West Ashton, Trowbridge, BA14 6AX
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