
Meet Mariam: She’s The Embodiment of How We Can Empower Women To Feed a Generation
We’re equipping women like this hard working matriarch with the most basic tool of survival and success: Good nutrition.

We’re equipping women like this hard working matriarch with the most basic tool of survival and success: Good nutrition.

As part of The Catherine Bertini Trust Fund for Girls’ Education, WFP USA is supporting the organization’s Kitenga Village Project in Tanzania. The heart of the project is the Kitenga School for Girls, which is slated to open in January 2015.

When I first started traveling to Africa, I would often meet children in the villages I was visiting and try to guess their ages. I was shocked to find out how often I guessed wrong. What I was witnessing was the terrible impact of malnutrition in Africa.

Comfort Kissiwaa is a Ghanaian mother of five, wife, farmer—and now the manager of a community bank and champion of her community’s development—thanks to her