The following is a poem written by Ugandan poet, Mukundane B. Albert, specifically for the 2011 Global Child Nutrition Forum in Nairobi, Kenya.
WHO WILL TAKE CHARGE OF SCHOOL FEEDING IN AFRICA?
By Mukundane. B. Albert.
Is it the incorporated organizations with expired registrations
The industrial farmers of degraded soils and climate change
The Enviromental activists of thy endangered land
The donor caring non-governmental units
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it the prayer warriors at the altar
Sports personnel in games programmes
Is it the land owners at the expense of struggling tenants
The daily assemblies with no resolutions
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it among the established discussion forums
The extension workers in their routine services
Food processors in their investments
The big honorables in poor rules of the game
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it the journalists in the modern world with no equipment
The research centers of higher learning
The rural populace amidst ignorance
The mushrooming businesses of the global world
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it the supermarkets at delivering contracts
The marginalized farmers of abandoned stock/produce
The fragmented blocks of investors
Decentralized units of agriculture and environment
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it the visionary leaders with no agenda
The modern technologists in the field of innovation
The corrupt in viable projects
Research units which have turned into museums
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it the advocates of change in collapsing schools
The climatic conditions determined by nature
The food stores affected by pests and weevils
The workers with no result orientations
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
Is it the hanging granaries with unmanageable systems
The suppliers and producers amidst food crisis
The professionals serving the hungry souls
The food reserve in poor infrastructure
Who will take charge of school feeding in Africa
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Mukundane. B. Albert, Box 1340 Kampala,[Uganda]
mukundanebalbert@yahoo.com
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