Short description

Using a community-strength centered approach to micronutrient deficiency this project will create awareness and empower the communities to diversify the foods grown in their homes to include nutritious foods like fruits and vegetables in kitchen gardens.

The problem we aim to solve

We majorly want to tackle micronutrient deficiency in pregnant and lactating mothers, HIV positive people and infants between 0 and 5 years of age in rural areas, refugee camps (West Nile region), areas affected with calamities like epidemics, drought and famine (Karamoja and Teso regions), and the poverty stricken regions (Busoga region). Geographically, our priority will be in the rural area, refugee camps, poverty stricken areas and areas affected with calamities like drought and famine.

Our solution

The provision of formulated rations to people suffering from malnutrition is not a sustainable method to fight micronutrient deficiency since the problems will fully manifest again at the end of the project. In our project, the people will not only be taught what to eat and how to prepare it but also how to produce it. This will be done by introducing the idea of setting up kitchen gardens in every home which will contain fruits and vegetables, and teaching people how to effectively raise some domestic livestock with emphasis being put on domestic chicken so as to provide a cheap source of animal dietary components.

Our approach will not provide temporary services like the government and some other organizations are doing but instead, we shall offer community-strength centered empowerment of the people within their available own resources with very minimal extra input requirements.

This idea will also improve the household incomes of the people because there will be increased agricultural output and the people will be able to sell off the surplus output and access other basic needs since we shall also train the people on general agricultural production of the staple foods in the respective local residences.

The whole training process will be based on the ideas of the local people and their ways of life so that no invasive ideas are introduced which may affect the adoption of these technologies by the people. We shall also base on the local and cultural leadership systems within the different areas to make the local people “own” the project.