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The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Kerry Group are working with dairy farmers and others in the Gitega province to improve nutrition and change lives in schools and communities

Over 200 Burundian farmers receive training in Kerry initiative 2022-12-25

The WFP has partnered with Irish nutrition player Kerry in an effort the company states has already brought milk to over 3,000 children through Project Amata. 

More than 3,000 children in Burundi now have access to safe milk as part of their school meals programme, provided through a partnership between the

Kerry and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) partner through Project Amata to give over 3,000 Burundi children access to milk.

Kerry Group has launched Project Amata, which aims to enhance the production and availability of safe, sustainable milk for communities in Burundi.

Why Project Amata is good news for school meals in Burundi Format By Matthew Stevens A new World Food Programme-Kerry project brings more milk to children in Gitega province, sustainably “The house I have, it came from milk production,” says Isaac, a dairy farmer in Bugendana, in Burundi’s central Gitega province. “When I had no cow, I was living in poverty.” The livelihoods of Isaac and his wife Bernadette depend upon their cows and the milk they produce. And that milk also helps sup...