Feed hungry children in Kenya

The major purpose of this Global Health Partnerships (GHP) project since its inception has been the nutritional treatment of malnourished children, and this successful effort continues. During the past year other children who live in the households of malnourished children, who are also hungry and poorly nourished, have been provided with food rations. The medical staff identified the first 12 of the porest families last year, and GHP began providing a monthly food supply to stave off hunger and prevent worsening malnutrition. Since then 5 more families have been added, two of them last month. Yatta Mutie is the head of one of those households and is typical of the problems faced by these families. She is a grandmother who is trying her best to take care of seven grandchildren whose parents died. She  shares one bed with her grandchildren in a small house without a door, cooking in the same house where they sleep. A Kenyan nurse working with Global Health Partnerships (GHP) has identified this family as one of the poorest, in great need of food and other basic necessities.  

With the help of generous donors, GHP provides a monthly food ration these 17 neediest families, in addition to the therapeutic feeding (with the supplement Plumpy’nut) of well over 100 children suffering from malnutrition. The problem of food insecurity is widely prevalent in this poverty-stricken region of eastern Kenya. Although most families are very poor, some are in more dire straits than others, such as the grandmothers who care for orphans whose parents often have died from AIDS.

This holiday season please consider adding to your past generous donations to GHP so that these poorest of families can be given a gift of extra food and clothing. The relief from the hunger and malnutrition can be provided by GHP very effectively and efficiently. Over 95% of the donations that are received by GHP go directly into program services!

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• Global Health Partnerships

Mwanzia was very thin and hungry when she was started on Plumpy’nut provided by the the Global Health Partnerships therapeutic feeding program. In fact, she was on the edge of survival. Thanks to your GlobalGiving donations, Mwanzia (shown in the photo with community health worker Mutinda) is growing and healthy. Over the past year 90 children like Mwanzia, all suffering from acute malnutrition, were treated and cured in the GHP therapeutic feeding program. Another 11 are improving and continuing to receive treatment.

Your generous support is what turns a child who is thin, undernourished and hungry into one who is healthy and thriving. With your help we will continue to provide relief from the hunger and malnutrition of the poorest families in Kenyan villages, effectively and efficiently.

Over 95% of the donations that we receive go directly into program services!