Healthy and Happy: children's food security in RDC

Dear Donors,

The situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is critical for the hundreds of children at risk. Malnutrition is a problem affecting millions of children with micro-nutritional deficiencies. This is a crisis of conflicts, instabilities, poverty, and poor healthcare systems. Most places in the DRC are deprived of nutrition, with acute and chronic malnutrition reaching levels that often rise above the emergency thresholds set by the World Health Organization. Children bear the brunt of these challenges, suffering from issues such as growth wasting and other severe health troubles due to malnutrition.

Every day, we work closely with AMKA Onlus and our local partner, the Institute of Augustinian Sisters, to help children suffering or at risk of malnutrition in the villages of Mabaya and Sambwa. We aim to reduce malnutrition and improve the well-being of children by supplying protein-rich food according to the diet of a child available to prevent stunted growth, which could lead to poor mental and physical development of children. Another essential part of our project is to track children’s health by carrying out monthly medical checkups and measuring their growth and nutrition improvement.

This commitment is having a positive impact on children's lives; hence, they develop hope for a brighter future. However, these efforts must be extended so that many more vulnerable children benefit from these interventions and nobody is left behind. Thank you!

Dear Donors,

With this report Aleimar would like to share with all of you news and updates about our project “Happy and healthy” managed in collaboration with AMKA, and Italian Organization based in Rome. Our local partner, the Institute of Augustinian Sisters, and in particular Sister Rachelle, reports the local situation and how the dispensary in Sambwa is operating.

During the last months food prices have risen and it is increasingly difficult for the local population to access to sufficient and healthy food. Moreover, Congo is facing the rainy season and a great number of productive activities are stopped, incomes are lover and it is more difficult to move around the country because of the lack of paved roads.

The dispensary helps between 25 and 30 children that suffer from malnutrition and in particular from severe undernutrition. Every day our Country Manger Francesco receives dramatic photos of children in really vulnerable conditions, but here we would like to share with you only the most respectful. The dispensary distributes life-saving food, especially rice and soy-based food that is called “bouille”. In addition, in collaboration with AMKA, a doctor visits the dispensary at least once a month in order to monitor the most sever cases. During the rainy season the logistic organization of these visits is harder, but our effort never stops. The doctors of AMKA have also identified malnourished children affected also by epilepsy. With this project Aleimar and AMKA would like to raise funds in order to buy and distribute food, supplements and medicines to treat epilepsy.

Thanks to your help this will be possible!

Thank you!