The project will feed 75 malnourished children for 2 months or this duration of the dry season. The dry season is severe in 2 provinces in Mindanao which are Zamboanga del Norte and Misamis Oriental and there is a need to provide food for identified malnourished children so that they are able to survive and remain healthy. Our fieldworkers will deliver the food on a weekly basis until this dry season is over.
It is summer months here in the Philippines and the dry condition is so severe staple food crops and vegetables grown by poor farmers do not grow rendering their families hungry. This is doubly difficult for already malnourished children who may not survive this season. We are targeting 75 very malnourished children and provide them with nutritious food this severe dry season.
Provision of nutritious food while food crops do not grow this dry season is a way in order to solve hunger and death in very poor, mountainous communities here.
The long-term impact of this project is improved capacities of very poor farming families through focused sanitation and food security support involving low-cost latrines and vegetable and root crop planting materials. In so doing, these families will have a good chance in life compared to their present condition of powerlessness, hunger and disease.
