Improving nutrition and health care
The remote and hard-to-access areas has suffered from a prolonged period of armed conflict. Due to the unpredictable security situation, many people have been forced to leave their homes, abandoning their property and their livelihoods.
This project aims to improve the living conditions of the region’s most vulnerable. The project seeks to deliver aid to children under five, pregnant women, mothers of young children, people displaced as a result of the conflict, and hosting communities that are helping the displaced.
The nutrition and health crises in the region are addressed concurrently. People in Need collaborates with five health-care facilities by training staff. In addition, MLFO provides medical supplies, medicines and nutritional packages to health facilities and their patients.
At the same time, we organize awareness-raising activities to help parents identify the symptoms of various diseases and to prevent acute malnutrition. The project’s goal is to help people stand on their own as soon as possible. To that end, we also focus on agricultural production and food security for the most vulnerable families. We provide farmers with quality seeds to grow nutrient-dense crops and present effective and sustainable ways of land management. Additionally, the project introduces farmers to crops that help prevent malnutrition and disease. Finally, the project offers trainings on how to understand market prices and how to trade crops effectively.
