The Media Centre Against child Malnutrition has declared that all is set to host its first-ever Nutrition Symposium scheduled to hold in Lagos on August 4, 2017 at Welcome Centre Hotels.
The National Coordinator of the Media Centre Against child Malnutrition, Remmy Nweke, said the theme would be: “Malnutrition, child development and the media.”
This, Nweke said, is coming as MeCAM is partnering with the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and Scale-up Nutrition Business Network to enhance information sharing as far as nutrition in the country.
He also said the partnership would benefit child development and the role of media in a developing economy like Nigeria’s and beckoned on other stakeholders to emulate GAIN by partnering with MeCAM in this auspicious event.
Equally, Nweke, who is the Group Executive Editor, DigitalSENSE Africa, said the forthcoming Nutrition Symposium by MeCAM would see to the leadership of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition and Scale-up Nutrition Business Network taking discussion on: “Communicating Nutrition Messages to Stakeholders: Role of the Media.”
The GAIN and SBN team, he confirmed, would be led by Country Team Lead at GAIN and Coordinator of SBN Nigeria, Uduak Igbeka, and would dwell on the sub-theme with expertise and dispatch, alongside other experts with vast experiences on the subject matter.
Further, he quoted the Food and Agriculture Organisation as recently declaring that an estimated 12.9 per cent of the Nigeria’s 190 million population has been projected to be among some 5 million undernourished people in the world today.
Nweke revealed that MeCAM is resolute to use this symposium to not just draw public attention to the threat that malnutrition poses to the future of the country, but to also correct the impression that this menace is restricted to the poor.
He emphasized that UNICEF had estimated at least 2.5 million Nigerian children suffer from acute malnutrition, thus posing the danger of many of them being at risk of death unless properly treated and of course with right information.
This situation, he said, represents clear and is dangerous to the socioeconomic wellbeing of the entire country.
MeCAM, Nweke said, is peopled exclusively by journalists, and mediapreneurs to push the narratives to save the Nigerian child from the danger of malnutrition through scaling up reporting and advocacy, among others.
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