Finatrade foundation celebrates world food day

Finatrade Foundation in collaboration with Chefs For Change, the Rice Master, Inter foods company and other organisations in celebrating this year’s United Nations World Food Day has fed over 3,000 under privileged children, the aged and orphans in the society by donating food to them as part of activities marking the Day.

The donation was made to the Osu Children’s Home, Help Age Ghana and the Accra Psychiatric hospital, with the aim of feeding the less privileged in society and to create awareness on the need for all to abstain from food wastage.


Mr Elijah Amoah-Addo, Chefs for Change, said the initiative which formed part of activities line-up to mark the World Food Day, was also to share and interact with children, the aged and the less privileged in society.


He said recent statistics shows that 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted around the world every year without considering the number of children who die every year out of hunger.


Mr Amoah-Addo said wasted food that were disposed into the bin turned into methane, a green-house gas that were extremely more hazardous than the carbon dioxide which was emitted into the atmosphere from vehicles.

“Food loss and waste also lead to a major inefficiency of resources such as water, land, energy and capital and needlessly produce greenhouse emission which contributed to global warming and climate change," he said.


The Finatrade Foundation Coordinator, Mr. Selorm Amevor said the decision of the Foundation to support the event was to ensure that the day was marked with full smiles on the faces of the children and the aged in our society.


“There are many children and aged out there who hardly get food to eat, today’s event is to send the appropriate signal to them that society has not neglected them.”


Also present at the event was Miss Ghana 2013, Guissepina Nana Akua Baafi .