Join GCNF on Monday, March 7, 2011 for the 8th annual A Possible Dream gala at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. Each year, the A Possible Dream gala is held during the Legislative Action Conference of our sister organization, the School Nutrition Association (SNA). The highlight of the evening will be the presentation of the prestigious Gene White Lifetime Achievement Award for Child Nutrition. In addition, we will honor the Individual Industry Member of the Year, Jill Conklin, Director of Sales Development, Winston Industries, and SNA’s Outstanding Director of the Year, Mary Kate Harrison, General Manager, Hillsborough County School District, Tampa, FL.
Proceeds from this event enable GCNF to provide technical assistance to countries with expanding and developing school feeding programs. Appropriately designed school feeding programs have been shown to increase access to education and learning while improving children’s health and nutrition. Your continued support of GCNF and commitment to ending childhood hunger makes a difference in the lives of the world’s children.
GCNF Board Member, Dr. Emmanuel Ohene Afoakwa, utilized the knowledge and skills attained through GCNF’s Global Forum and successfully attained a $1 million investment by the Government of the Netherlands to develop a nationwide Programme on Elementary School Feeding in Ghana. Launched in September 2005, the elementary school feeding program began with 1,985 pupils in ten pilot schools, one in each region. Currently, the program has grown to cover 656,624 pupils in 1,698 public primary schools in each of the country’s 170 districts and will be scaled up to benefit over one million pupils by the end of 2010.
As a direct result of GCNF’s technical assistance, the government of Malawi is working with a non-government organization to launch a school feeding program in some 170 village schools. Charles Mazinga, Malawi Ministry of Education, Global Forum delegate and 2010 LAC Winston Policy Scholar stated “the sensitization and training went on well such that the participation of the communities was impressive and we saw most of the chiefs attending the meetings in each of the schools we visited. This was a clear indication that the programme was overwhelmingly welcomed by all.”
These school feeding programs provide nourishment to impoverished children who are encouraged to attend school, are alert while they are in school, and through their education, go on to become self-sufficient, contributing citizens in their countries. Please join us once again as we honor the champions of child nutrition on Monday, March 7, 2011 at the Andrew Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
Contact gcnf@schoolnutrition.org with questions.
UPDATE: 11/2/2010
For more information please see the Sponsorship Opportunities (pdf) or contact Nicole Bernard, GCNF Operations Coordinator, at nbernard@schoolnutrition.org or (301) 686-3150.
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