Nigeria
One of African’s wealthiest and most populous nations, Nigeria has the third highest number of severely malnourished children in the world. ACF's lifesaving nutrition programs aim to help the Nigerian government build capacity and strengthen their health system to tackle this deadly condition. In 2011 alone, ACF trained some 1,000 public health workers and equipped and supported 200 health centers, ensuring that 12,000 severely malnourished individuals—the vast majority of them children—received life-saving care.
Global Hunger Index
Serious
Population
158 million
Malnutrition in Children under 5 Years Old
26.7% in 2008
Beneficiaries
12,000 in 2011
Impact
12,000 children were saved from deadly malnutrition through ACF's life-saving nutrition programs in 2011
Funders
Recent News
If you simply scratch the surface, it appears as if Nigeria is having a golden moment. It’s a middle income country according to the World Bank, and is the second largest economy in Africa after South Africa. The U.S. gets 20 percent of its oil from Nigeria and is the nation’s largest foreign investor.... Read
Sahel Food Crisis: 10 Leading Aid Agencies Call for Urgent 'Surge' in Aid for 10 Million Hungry People
July 8, 2010
Breaking News
NEW YORK, NY— Ten leading aid agencies today called for a 'surge' in the humanitarian effort to help 10 million people at risk of acute hunger across the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. The center of the crisis is Niger, where seven million people, almost half the population, have not enough food.... Read
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