Ghana’s premier family shopping centre, MaxMart has listed the Afram Plains South District of the Eastern
region of Ghana with a donation of GH¢5,000 to Food for All Ghana Sustainable
Farms Fund as initial capital to build a community livestock farm for deprived
communities reports NaijaAgroNet.
Receiving the cheque from General Manager of MaxMart , Mr.
Omar Naboulsi, the founder of Food for All Africa programme, Chef Elijah Addo,
reiterated the need for community partnership towards addressing hunger and
food waste in Africa.
He also said the donation was as a result of a month long
Waitrose Buy More Feed More Christmas project carried out by Food for All and
MaxMart to raise awareness on the economic and environmental impact of food
waste and hunger in Ghana.
“It was to also involve Ghanaians and stakeholders in
creating sustainable means of nutrition for beneficiaries under the Food for
All Africa programme. Through the month of Christmas, MaxMart donated 3% of
Waitrose branded product prices for which it’s customers bought,” he said.
He quoted facts from the 2016 Cost of Hunger in Ghana report
published in August by National Development Planning Commission which shows
that Ghana loses GH¢ 4.6 billion which is equivalent to 6.4% GDP annually to
hunger among children and 24% of all child mortality cases in Ghana are
associated with under nutrition.”
He indicated that the choice of Afram plains
for the community farm project was as a result of the number of children in the
community who are out of school due to a lack of regular means of nutrition.He
appealed for individuals and corporate bodies to donate to the Food for All
Ghana Sustainable Farms Fund to create sustainable means of nutrition for vulnerable
communities in Africa.”
Also speaking, Naboulsi indicated MaxMart believes community
participation plays a critical role in solving the economic and environmental
impact of food waste and hunger in Ghana. It is in that regard that as sole
distributors of Waitrose brand in Ghana, they involved their customers during
Christmas to raise funding in support of the good work Food for All in
undertaking to ensure a means of nutrition for the vulnerable in Ghana.”MaxMart
is a socially responsible business and will keep supporting social intervention
programs such as Food for All in Ghana.
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