The 2005 “State of Food Insecurity in the World” report states that “hungry children start school later, if at all, drop out sooner and learn less while they do attend, stalling progress towards universal primary and secondary education”. (Millennium Development Goal No.s 2). It will be a priority of every Edu-POD facility to provide a free hot meal to every child while at school. This will have an immediate effect on their health through the regular taking of healthy and nutrient rich hot food and aid them in their concentration while attending lessons. This will allow the monitoring by the Medi-POD medical staff, of the children’s progress in terms of weight gain and overall well being. The teachers in the Edu-POD should see a steady improvement in concentration levels of the children during classes. This provision would go a great way towards dealing with the issue of hunger that plagues the Least Developed Countries and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. A potential side effect of this type of provision is that it will act as a way to attract children to attend school. Parents will see a double-benefit in that the children receive a free hot meal while at school but also bring home provisions that are locally produced and given to the children’s families as part of the outreach programme. This would help all members of the community in one go as the provisions would be available to all to utilise. It could form part of a community wide monitoring project by the Edu-POD and Medi-POD teams working together to tackle the issue of hunger.

If the goals of economic development include:

- improved standards of living – removal of poverty – access to dignified employment – reduction in inequlaity then it is quite natural to start with women.

They constitute the majority of the poor, the under-employed and the economically and socially disadvantaged.

They are closer to the children and therefore the key to any countries future. Given any opportunity at all, a poor woman in any society wants to build up her security especially her financial security. Destitute women adapt quicker and better to the self-help process than men. Poor women have the vision to see further and are willing to work harder to get out of poverty because they suffer the most. Women pay more attention, prepare their children to have better lives and are more consistent in their performance than men. Money going through a woman in a household brings more benefits to the family as a whole than money entering the household through a man. Geo-PODs greatest opportunity exists when it engages fully with the women of any community and makes them realise that this facility with all its opportunities, products and services, will act as a true catalyst for helping them to not only improve but also change their communities for the better. These facilities will have long term effects when it comes to opportunities for women in their community but also for their children.

Only seven years now remain before the 2015 deadline by which world leaders have pledged to reduce hunger and extreme poverty by half and to make substantial gains in education, health, social equity, environmental sustainability and international solidarity. 1. Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger. 2. Achieve universal primary education. 3. Promote gender equality and empower women. 4. Reduce child mortality. 5. Improve maternal health. 6. Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. 7. Ensure environmental sustainability. 8. Develop a global partnership for development.