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2024-09-24 07:30

Gates Foundation Celebrates Children's Health and Nutrition Champions at Goalkeepers 2024: Recipe for Progress

Honorees include Brazil's President Lula and 10 leaders working to improve health and nutrition in their communities

NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- At its event, Goalkeepers 2024: Recipe for Progress, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation honored remarkable leaders who are advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) with solutions to keep people healthy and nourished in a rapidly warming world.

The annual event took place during United Nations General Assembly week and was hosted by Janet Mbugua, media personality and anchor. The event, which highlighted opportunities to ensure better nutrition for all so everyone can reach their full potential, also featured special guests, including Jon Batiste, singer, songwriter, and composer; Christy Turlington Burns, founder and president of Every Mother Counts; Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Saul Guerrero Oteyza, UNICEF's senior advisor on financing for child nutrition and development; Muhammad Ali Pate, coordinating minister for health and social welfare of Nigeria; and Marcus Samuelsson, award-winning celebrity chef and philanthropist. Adriana Diaz, co-host of CBS Mornings Plus, and Francine Lacqua, anchor for Bloomberg Television, served as session moderators.

"Goalkeepers is about bringing together a community of global changemakers who champion the Sustainable Development Goals to energize and inspire each other to continue making progress," said Mark Suzman, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "This year, we're focused on the more than 400 million children who aren't getting the nutrients they need to grow and thrive. While climate change is making that challenge harder to solve, progress is possible. By scaling up existing tools, investing in promising research, and lifting up champions like the ones we're celebrating today, we can help ensure all children can reach their full potential—and build global resilience as the world gets hotter."

In 2023, the World Health Organization estimated that 148 million children experienced stunting, a condition where children don't grow to their full potential mentally or physically, and 45 million children experienced wasting, a condition where children become weak and emaciated, leaving them at much greater risk of developmental delays and death. These are the most severe and irreversible forms of chronic and acute malnutrition.

The event followed last week's release of the foundation's eighth annual Goalkeepers report, "A Race to Nourish a Warming World." The report finds that without immediate global action, climate change will condemn an additional 40 million children to stunting and 28 million more to wasting between 2024 and 2050. It highlights proven tools that are helping solve malnutrition, building people's resilience to the worst impacts of climate change, and further driving down childhood deaths. The report calls for renewed commitments to global health spending, including for Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, the Global Fund, and the Child Nutrition Fund.

Celebrating Global Goalkeepers

The 2024 Global Goalkeeper Award, which recognizes a leader who has driven progress on a global scale toward achieving the Global Goals, was presented to Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. During his first term, President Lula launched Bolsa Familia, a robust anti-poverty and social inclusion program that helped lift millions out of poverty and reduce the nation's stunting rate from 37% to 7% over three decades. President Lula is building on this domestic legacy to champion the Global Alliance on Hunger and Poverty as the signature initiative of Brazil's G20 presidency. The initiative embraces proven, evidence-based strategies to improve food security, enhance health, reduce poverty, and promote equity at scale.

The event also honored 10 Goalkeepers Champions—experts, innovators, advocates, and leaders from around the world—who are leading the charge towards a more nourished world: Dr. Tahmeed Ahmed of Bangladesh, Ladidi Bako-Aiyegbusi of Nigeria, Beza Beshah Haile of Ethiopia, Dr. Zahra Hoodbhoy of Pakistan, Dr. Nancy Krebs of the United States, Dr. Jemimah Njuki of Kenya, Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana of Rwanda, Lilian dos Santos Rahal of Brazil, Bhavani Shankar of the United Kingdom, and Ratan Tata of India. Please read the champions bios and the full press release here. Please find the Goalkeepers champions' bios and the full press release here.

Photos from the event can be found here.

The full text of the 2024 Goalkeepers report can be found here: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/goalkeepers/report/2024-report/

Additional Goalkeepers materials are available here:
Goalkeepers 2024 Report Materials
Goalkeepers 2024 Data Visualizations
Goalkeepers 2024 Images

Media contact: media@gatesfoundation.org

About the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people's health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Mark Suzman, under the direction of Co-Chairs Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates and the board of trustees.

About Goalkeepers
Goalkeepers is the foundation's campaign to accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). By sharing stories and data behind the Global Goals through an annual report, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hopes to inspire a new generation of leaders—Goalkeepers who raise awareness of progress, hold their leaders accountable, and drive action to achieve the Global Goals.

About the Global Goals
On September 25, 2015, at the United Nations headquarters in New York, 193 world leaders committed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals). These are a series of ambitious objectives and targets to achieve three extraordinary things by 2030: end poverty, fight inequality and injustice, and fix climate change.

source: Gates Foundation

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