The ‘Food4All Initiative‘, a pro-Nigeria food security and agri-food entrepreneurship intervention program, got the support of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, which is the umbrella body of all Pentecostal Churches in Nigeria, to help solve hunger and hardship in the country, more so among certain vulnerable citizens.
‘Food4All Initiative‘ is a pro-Nigeria food security and agri-food entrepreneurship intervention program designed to help solve the Nigeria & food crisis, hunger, youth, and women unemployment with a view to households’ poverty and national insecurity.
This is an initiative born of a joint creation between FUND-YES Cooperative—a subsidiary social enterprise operated by Youths Off The Street Initiative—and Multi-Life Savers For The Less Privileged People, headed by Kennedy Iyere and Ejike Mbaka respectively.
The national president, PFN, Bishop Francis Wale-Oke, who hosted in his church in Ibadan the Food4All advocacy team led by Kennedy Iyere, said it was a worthy encounter.
This, therefore, is a great intervention God-sent program, the Food4All Initiative, to take care of those ticking time bombs in the form of food insecurity and an acute hunger crisis that will blow Nigeria into one chaotic, catastrophic mass protest by angry hungry people if not speedily and squarely dealt with.
Iyere, head of FUND-YES Cooperatives, speaking in turns, said this was an initiative to grow a national grassroots cooperative business network of six million food entrepreneurs. He further disclosed that the fundraiser for this Campaign would kick-start on July 11, 2024.
He said the fund-raising exercise was meant to raise funds across the world for the implementation of the ‘One-Family-One-Farmer Scheme’ and finance Youths and Young Women to become Smart Farmers.
She added that Iyere called such on Nigerians both at home and in the Diaspora to support the Food4All Initiative, which will recruit and establish a national grassroots agripreneurs and agri-food cooperative business network of six million smart farmers, especially youth and young women, complemented by older farmers in rural communities.
“The efforts aim at reducing hunger, high food prices, unemployment, economic hardship, and household poverty.”.
“FEEFUND will also be financed through funds raised under the Food4all Initiative, Iyere said.”.
He continued to say that the latent hunger crisis still poses a huge health risk to millions of Nigerians, particularly children and others of the most vulnerable class of citizens.
Further, apart from the health risks faced by Nigerians, he said the existing hunger crisis was a critical threat to Nigeria’s political stability, human productivity, and national security. “It is a widely known fact that Nigeria is currently faced by an acute food crises for which many families are unable to feed themselves.”.
“If nothing is promptly done to avert an impending mass protest by the hungry and angry Nigerians, the result of such revolt by angry citizens will not be palatable,” Iyere said.