Short description

“Fish farming a solution to Kwashiorkor in children” project is aimed at improving the nutrition of the local people’s children by providing cheap source of fish protein and calcium.

The problem we aim to solve

A key phenomenon is the burden of micro and macro-nutrient malnutrition, and in particular deficiencies in key nutrients such as proteins,  calcium, iron, vitamin A, iodine, and zinc, which is estimated to affect 2 billion people worldwide and most largely from developing countries like Uganda. Pregnant women and young children who are undergoing rapid growth and development are the most vulnerable to micro and macro nutrient deficiencies and, consequently, suffer the greatest adverse effects.

Our solution

Proteins and other fish products are important chemicals of life in brain development, body building and provision of important animal proteins. Fish is the only cheapest source of animal protein free from cholesterol and calcification. The scarcity of fish has reached an alarming level, when you visit the fish market, people are just lamenting when the refrigerated skeletal fish bones is not supplied when they expect it, and how they scramble for it when it arrives is testimony enough of the need and demand for fish. The presence of abundant still water around R. Asaa swamp and already existing ponds are resources with big potential to produce fish which can supply the most parts of Arivu Constituency and other parts of Arua district. All this is caused by rapid increase in population with the increasing fish demand overwhelming the local market supplies. Fish farming is the only way to avert this and save the children and pregnant mothers from deficiency diseases like Kwashiorkor through better farm management practices.