US president-elect Barack Obama's grandmother, Sarah Obama, 86, is to become an ambassador in the fight against malnutrition in her native Kenya, The Standard newspaper reported Saturday.
Sarah Obama would work on an anti-malnutrition campaign by the Kisumu Kids' Empowerment Organization, the report said.
Kisumu, which is located on the shores of Lake Victoria, is Kenya's third largest city and some 70 kilometres from Sarah Obama's native village of Kogelo in the west of the country, reported dpa.
The organization's parent in New York, the Intergovernmental Institution for the Use of Micro-Algae Spirulina against Malnutrition (IIMAM), is expected to start working with Sarah Obama next week.