Short description

Joint project on raising awareness [on the issue of hidden hunger] for pregnant women and the local population and financing agro-pastoral projects [crop and livestock production] via microcredits for as well as the development of software for monitoring and evaluation.

Which problem do we aim to solve and why?

The population knows very little about micronutrient-rich foods and has no or only poor access to them. Reasons for this are a high rate of illiteracy, especially among women, the scarcity of [(presumably) affordable and diverse] food products due to the increased industrialization of the food industry and the very low financial power of women in particular.

Our solution

• Raising public awareness on the issue of hidden hunger
• Acquisition of land [agricultural plots] for the cultivation of foods rich in micronutrients and livestock husbandry (poultry)
• Provision of the crop and livestock products to the target population
• Establishment of a micro-finance fund to support the women involved in the program to develop income-generating activities in order to improve their financial capacity, which will have a positive impact on the quality of family food, [benefitting] especially the children.
• Development of a software to monitor and evaluate the nutritional status of pregnant women and children between 0 and 3 years.
• Setting up a website to communicate and disseminate the results of the KAHBAM project

Why is our idea innovative, new and different?

• Implementation of a micro-finance project that will have a long-term effect on the progress of combating hidden hunger
• Development of a software for a better assessment of the effectiveness of the project: monitoring the development of the nutritional and health status of the affected children and pregnant women; communication with the regional health authorities.