A demonstration was held Sunday in Nicaragua to call for greater attention to the country's population suffering hunger, local media reported.
Senior government officials including ministers of agriculture, education, health and foreign affairs attended the march held in the northeastern city of Matagalpa.
More than 1,000 children from Matagalpa, one of the departments hardest hit by hunger and high rates of chronic bad nutrition, also participated in the march.
Agriculture Minister Ariel Bucardo said he would push forward the program "Zero Hunger," a government program which aims to help about 75,000 poor families to overcome poverty by providing livestock like pigs or production subsidies.
The demonstration was summoned by the World Food Programme (WFP), which also initiated anti-hunger marches in 70 other citiesin the world.
President of the WFP's Nicaragua branch William Hart said that marching against hunger is a way to manifest his will to aid Nicaragua's efforts to eliminate hunger.
WFP Nicaragua is helping feed more than half million people in the country, including 400,000 elementary school students in Matagalpa.
About 6 million children die each year from bad nutrition in the world, while 840 million people are struggling with hunger, according to the WFP.
Source: Xinhua
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