Bright Beginning Centre observes World Food Day

The students with some of the food collected
The students with some of the food collected

Students of the Bright Beginning Centre (BBC) in Roseau brought in a variety of food items to the school on Thursday as part of observing World Food Day.

Principal of the institution, Joycelyn Graham-Laronde, told Dominica News Online (DNO) the the food items collected will be given away.

“At our school we have all of our students bringing in a food item today and whatever is collected today will be given to a needy institution on island,” she said. “As you know all around the world there are people who are really in need and right here in our own homeland, Dominica we have a lot of people who are in need of food…”

World Food Day is celebrated annually in honour of the date in 1945 that the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was founded.

According to information from the International Business Times, earlier this year the UN food agency warned that the number of starving people in the world is as high as 805 million, or one in nine, despite the overall figure falling by more than 100 million in the past decade.

An estimated 26 percent of the world’s children have had their growth stunted due to malnutrition, and two billion people suffer from one or more micronutrient deficiencies as a result of not eating a varied diet of protein, vitamins and minerals.

Overall, there have been improvements from last year, when the report showed around 842 million people went hungry – but there is still work to be done to end food insecurity.

The theme of this year’s observance of World Food Day is “Feeding the World, Caring for the Earth”.

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9 Comments

  1. Tyson Isidore
    October 18, 2014

    Hi it’s :-P :-? :-| 8-O :-P Adiyana Dad thanks f teaching her f me nice one
    Thanks t all da staff xx

  2. Daily Bugle
    October 16, 2014

    Nice to see the children presenting their food donations on World Food Day. I can see my young cousin Adianna smiling too.

  3. Father
    October 16, 2014

    Great job guys. See my Jayde smiling.

  4. Future
    October 16, 2014

    Lets recreate a better place for our children. Healthy and cleaner environment for them. Lets love and show them respect and support their dreams.

    • Future
      October 16, 2014

      ***Sorry create

  5. Mother
    October 16, 2014

    Lovely children :) God bless always!

  6. Anonymous
    October 16, 2014

    Great work from a great school and staff

  7. Servant of the Soil
    October 16, 2014

    Great job, it is wonderful to see the children are being taught to give back to the needy at such a young age.

  8. not known
    October 16, 2014

    i can see my nephew …my son ..loic …missing you baby…soon aunty wil visit you

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