The first community we visited was the Nyonkorkor community where we met several mothers of malnourished children. Good thing was that the children were present with their parents. Our nutrition officer, took the kids through a malnutrition test and discovered 89 percent of the children present were below the malnutrition line. We had a total number of 72 parents present for the training.
The second community we visited was the Suchaasa community, where malnutrition rates were even higher than the first community, The Nutrition officer conducted the malnutrition test and almost every child present fell below the malnutrition line. We had a total of 58 women present at the training
For both communities, the malnutrition officer took the parents through a few discussions as to the causes of malnutrition and the suggested solutions. They were also taken through some other recipes of preparing healthy dishes using the locally grown crops.
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