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Tetra Pak, the Swedish food processor and provider of packaging solutions, and the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF), announced today that Ulla Holm, Global Director of the company’s Food for Development Office, has joined the board of the Global Child Nutrition Foundation (GCNF).

This commitment marks another step forward in Tetra Pak’s long history of supporting sustainable school feeding, agricultural and dairy development programmes around the world.

“Tetra Pak has more than 40 years' experience in school milk programmes, and extensive knowledge on how to link such programmes to development of a whole dairy sector," said GCNF President, Gene White. "This experience is a tremendous asset to us as we strive to ensure sustainable solutions for providing children with adequate nutrition. We’re very pleased that Ulla Holm has accepted our invitation to join our board, and we look forward to our continued partnership."

Global Child Nutrition Foundation The GCNF is a sister organisation to the School Nutrition Association (SNA), whose activities goes back to 1946. Building on the long experience of the SNA, the GCNF was created in 2006 with the mission of expanding opportunities for the world's children to receive adequate nutrition for learning and achieving their potential. It promotes child nutrition internationally through sustainable school and community based feeding programmes.

“The GCNF is unique among non-governmental organisations in its focus on knowledge-sharing and support to governments to develop policies and guidelines for the creation, implementation and management of school feeding programmes based on public private partnership,” said Ulla Holm. “We’re committed to continuing to work with the GCNF to expand school feeding programmes, which can then act as a catalyst for agricultural and economic development,” she added.

Through its school feeding partnerships, the GCNF and Tetra Pak are aiming to help meet the first of the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Millennium Development Goal 1 is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. For more information on UN Millennium Development Goals, please see <http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/goals.html>.

Tetra Pak has supported school milk programmes around the globe for more than 40 years, through its Food for Development Office (FfDO) and in partnership with governments, development agencies and its customers.

In 2007 alone, around 45 million school children all over the world received milk or other nutritious drinks in Tetra Pak packages. Approximately 22 million of these children live in developing countries.