The African Development Bank, AfDB is to launch World Hunger Fighter’s Prize and Fellowship foundation with a view to ending global hunger.
A statement by the Bank’s President Akinwumi Adesina said in Abuja that the foundation would also work toward lifting millions of people in Africa out of poverty.
According to the statement, the World Hunger Fighter’s Prize Foundation in partnership with the World Food Prize Foundation, USA, is establishing the Borlaug-Adesina Fellowship.
It said that the fellowship programme would present opportunity to outstanding African youths between the ages of twenty one and thirty years.
The statement said that Adesina devoted his World Food Prize and SunHak Peace Prize monetary awards to endow and establish the World Hunger Fighters Foundation.m$OLvXW�
