2008 World Food Prize Goes to Two U.S. Senators
July 4, 2008| |
The 2008 World Food Prize will be awarded to former United States Senators Robert Dole and George McGovern for their inspired, collaborative leadership that has encouraged a global commitment to school feeding and enhanced school attendance and nutrition for millions of the world’s poorest children, especially girls. The two recipients worked diligently on behalf of the McGovern-Dole international school-feeding program. Since 2000, it has provided meals to feed more than 22 million children in 41 countries and boosted school attendance by an estimated 14 percent overall and by 17 percent for girls. The success of the McGovern-Dole program has also led to dramatically increased international support for expansion of school-feeding operations in developing countries around the world.
Readers can access the complete article at http://www.worldfoodprize.org/press_room/2008/june/08laureates.htm.
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