The Embassy of Netherlands in Cairo captured a photo from the famous ‘Friday market’, which won the first prize in a photo competition held by the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs.
The Embassy of Netherlands in Cairo captured a photo from the famous ‘Friday market’, which won the first prize in a photo competition held by the Dutch ministry of foreign affairs.
The photo is remarkable; it shows an old mirror among a collection of antiques in Cairo’s Friday Market that reflects a miserable child who appears to belong to a working class. The photo was selected as the best photo to represent a varied community. It is rich in detail and shows so many things guaranteed to keep the viewer from feeling bored.
FAO to launch poster contest
On the margin of celebrating World Food Day, the office of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Cairo in cooperation with Arab Women Investors union has launched a poster contest among students of agriculture and tourism colleges under the theme “Agricultural Cooperatives to Feed the World”. The contest aims to highlight the role played by cooperative societies to improve food security and to reduce hunger around the world.
The deadline for presenting the posters for evaluation is 7 November 2012. The winning college, represented by its dean, and the wining students will be awarded by FAO. The contest is open to students aged between 17 and 23. Students have an opportunity to express their ideas about hunger and share their creative visions with the world.
Posters may be created digitally, drawn, painted or sketched using pens, pencils, crayons or charcoal, or using oil, acrylic or watercolour paint. It is allowed to include text in any language on the poste, but not any personal data or picture.
WFP supports ‘Food for Education’
The World Food Programme (WFP) and PepsiCo celebrated their partnership for the fifth year in a row, with signing an agreement on the Pepsico’s Tomouh (Ambition) education programme.
The agreement between WFP and Tomouh, funded by PepsiCo with USD150,000 (more than EGP900,000) benefits schoolchildren in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Sohag.
“WFP’s ‘Food for Education’ project aims at improving the nutritional status of women and children in the poorest areas in Upper Egypt and Bedouin communities,” said WFP Representative and Country Director for Egypt Gian Pietro Bordignon.
As part of WFP’s school meals programme, the children receive a monthly take-home ration of 10kg of rice as an incentive for poorer families to send their children to school regularly.
Since 2007, this joint partnership is helping each year more than 2600 of the most vulnerable children and their families—a total of some 13,000 people—in 84 schools in Dar al-Salam, Guhaina and Saqulta districts of Sohag.
WFP will use PepsiCo’s contribution to purchase meals enriched with minerals and vitamin A covering 25 per cent of a child’s nutritional daily needs to improve children##s concentration and school performance.
WATANI International
6 October 2012