Nicaragua Gets to Roots of Hunger
The Zero Hunger program, whose aim is to benefit about 75,000 rural families in five years, starts Saturday in a distant northern community of Nicaragua.

President Daniel Ortega is expected to go to Raiti, on the banks of Coco River near the border with Honduras, to open the Sandinista government project.

According to promoters, this is an integral program for families to produce their own food.

It envisages the delivery of a productive food bonus of $2,000, which includes a pregnant cow and sow, species of fowl, seeds, fruit trees, agricultural and other supplies.

The aim is that the family is capable of producing milk, meat, eggs, grains and other important products of the basic Nicaraguan diet.