FY2024 GFN Annual Report Nourshing People and Planet - Flipbook - Page 32
Lagos Food
Bank Initiative,
Nigeria
Advancing
Nutritional Health
Lagos Food Bank Initiative hosts mothers
and their infant-to-toddler children at its
warehouse as part of a program that seeks
to address Nigeria’s high rate of infant and
maternal malnutrition. One of the moms in
attendance one morning, Toyin Koleosho,
was pleased to report that her daughter
Angel had benefited greatly from the
nutritious food provided by the food bank
every two weeks over the course of a few
months.
Angel had been referred to the program by
a local primary healthcare center—LFBI has
relationships with 42 of them in Lagos—for
being underweight. At 4 months, the baby
was only 6 pounds (2.8 kilograms), but
over the course of the program, “her body
changed,” reported Toyin. “Now she moves
more, and she has a big smile.” At 9 months,
Angel weighs a much more age-appropriate
17 pounds (7.8 kilograms).
