ADDIS ABABA – Save the children in Ethiopia granted 9.3 million Birr to Seqota Declaration, an Ethiopian Government program launched in 2015 to improve children’s nutrition and end stunting by 2030 in the country.
The grant is an initial agreement to support the efforts of tackling stunting by the government, said USAID Acting Deputy Mission Director, Shelby Patrick Hunt at mid period assessments of the USAID and Save the Children’s joint five year Growth through Nutrition Project.
Patrick said that the grant is allocated for one year to support the implementation of the declaration in Debarek and Ebnat Woredas of Amhara State and Naeder Adet Woreda in Tigray State.
The grant is additional to the joint Growth through Nutrition Project being implemented in Amhara, Tigray, Oromia and Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples states.
The project aims to improve quality nutrition reaching more than 2.2 million children under age five and over 375 thousand pregnant women so far, he added.
Save the children is celebrating its 100 years serving on children throughout the world and it was serving different services since 1967 in Ethiopia, it was learnt.
The Ethiopian Herald April 19, 2019
BY DARGIE KAHSAY
