Transforming Women’s Nutrition in West Africa
At The Hunger Project, we facilitate individual and collective action to transform the systems of inequity that create hunger and cause it to persist. Gender inequality is one of the most deeply rooted inequities and is responsible for keeping millions of women and girls malnourished. Globally, the gap between men’s and women’s hunger has widened, with food insecurity as of 2022 has been affecting 150 million more women than men.
Malnutrition impacts girls’ and women’s health and wellbeing, reducing economic potential, new opportunities, and learning capacity. It reinforces gender inequality.
To break this cycle of malnutrition, community leaders from around West Africa are working with The Hunger Project to improve maternal and early childhood nutrition and create thriving communities.
