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  </span>January blog<span style>                                                                                                       
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.25pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.25pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">I have to admit my columns are not always calming. <br>
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  <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;color:white" lang="EN-GB"><span style>                             </span>SCALING UP
  NUTRITION (SUN)</span></b></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Garamond;color:white" lang="EN-GB"><span style>     </span>LET US HOPE THAT THE SUN
  INITIATIVE </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB"><span style="color:rgb(255,255,255)">CAN</span><span style="color:white"> REALLY </span></span></p>
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  CENTRE OF DEVELOPMENT</span></p>
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<p style="margin-right:35.1pt;line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">I here ask questions
and make comments about the rather big SUN (Scaling Up Nutrition) worldwide initiative
endorsed by the World Bank and the pertinent UN agencies plus some
international NGOs. </span></font></p><font size="4"></font><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">I consider myself a
nutrition activist. As such, I try to have my practical experience influence my
theory. Our engagement in nutrition work should lead to a praxis in which
profession, empathy, concern and political solidarity become one and the same.
Without these bearings I fear that we will just go in circles. I fear that the
SUN initiative does not – at least yet – have these bearings. In any case, we
need to discuss it, as between colleagues and friends. Here, I call for us to
build up our capacities as nutrition activists to motivate others to be equally
constructively critical.<span style="color:red"> </span></span></font><font size="4">

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  ARE </span></p>
  <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:150%"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Garamond;color:white" lang="EN-GB"><span style>                </span>NOT THOSE WHO
  HAVE THE PROBLEMS </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:9.25pt;line-height:115%;background:white"><span style="font-family:Garamond" lang="EN-GB">I here below proceed to ask some general questions, and also some questions
addressed to the leaders of the SUN initiative. I hope this will generate a
dialogue. </span></p>

<br><br> To read the full blog go to<br><br><a href="http://wp.me/plAxa-1xK">http://wp.me/plAxa-1xK</a> <br><br>Claudio<br>