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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

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.

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...

Taste and nutrition company Kerry has announced details of Project Amata, a new project with the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). It aims to enhance the production and availability of safe, sustainable milk for children and communities in the Gitega province of Burundi. Project Amata (amata means milk in Kirundi, Burundi’s national language) builds on the previous WFP and Kerry partnership, Project Leche, which helped Honduran farmers create a safer and m...