We are carrying out the following activities under food and nutrition.

• We identify and offer referral of the malnourished children and mothers to health facilities for further management.
• We train women and men on best feeding practices and preparation of nutritious meals.
• We skill women and men on food preservation through usage of solar dryers.

Because

• when malnourished children and mothers are identified and referred to health facilities they will be able to get immediate care and support
• When women and men are empowered with skills and knowledge on best feeding practices they will be able to make nutritious meals for their households and then overcome malnutrition.
• When women and men are empowered on how to preserve food they will be able to have food throughout the year.

Detailed Food and Nutrition

Advancing sustainable food systems and improving dietary diversity among target communities is key in enabling us achieve our organization mission and vision. Through our agronomist and nutritionist and working with other stakeholders, we advance knowledge and skills on ensuring food security by increasing availability of food all time through emphasizing organic food management and proper gardening mechanisms but also ensuring proper feeding especially among lactating mothers, pregnant women and children below 5 years of age. To mitigate food loss and wastage, we emphasize proper crop management and handling even when crops are still in gardens before harvest, during harvest and post-harvest. This enables us to monitor and emphasize proper food safety through improved storage and preservation mechanisms and also real time eating before food goes bad and wasted. We thus train on how to prepare a nutritious meal depending on the target persons. This helps to manage and mitigate cases of hunger, malnutrition  and other food related illnesses and challenges that may arise due to poor feeding.

How we identify our beneficiaries

Through our community led approach, we carry out community needs assessments that help us identify the categories of people we work with on different projects. Our stakeholder engagements before and during project implementation also helps us identify target beneficiaries that are directly involved in our projects. These beneficiaries are engaged in project designing and practical implementation sessions so as to achieve real impact from them.