Britain’s double Olympic gold hero Mo Farah on Sunday helped launch a “hunger summit” aimed at tackling malnutrition worldwide, held at Prime Minister David Cameron’s Downing Street residence. Fresh from winning the 5,000-metre final on Saturday, Farah joined Cameron, Brazilian football legend Pele, famed Ethiopian distance runner Haile Gebrselassie and Vice President Michel Temer of Brazil, who co-hosted the event. Taking advantage of the large number of foreign officials gathered in London for the Olympic Games, Cameron led the calls for the international community to help the 25 million children around the world suffering from stunted growth. The prime minister called Farah and Gebrselassie “enormous role models” who could help raise the profile of the struggle against malnutrition. “While people around the planet have been enjoying and competing in these Games, there’s another world where children don’t have enough to eat and never get the start in life they deserve,” he said.”We’ve a responsibility to tackle this. But the hard truth is that, while we’ve made huge strides in the last decade on things like education, malnutrition rates have stagnated.”Farah, 29, who was born in Somalia but moved to Britain at age eight, shook hands with the British premier outside Number 10 Downing Street before performing his distinctive “Mobot” celebration.
