Help nourish 300 Ugandan children!

Thank you for supporting our project to help nourish 300 Ugandan children. We just received a quarterly progress report from our Millenium Village partner in Uganda. They shared with us the above photo of a happy, healthy child eating Ekitobeero along with the encouraging news that the project is going very well: 

"The feeding interventions are going well. Every four weeks, caregivers of enrolled child participants are able to pick up food supplements at their nearest health facility. At the ‘food distribution’ day, a demonstration of how to prepare and feed the supplement is provided for newly enrolled caregivers. In addition, the Community Health Workers (CHWs) use their counseling cards and instructional handouts to encourage improved Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices more generally and to ensure that the caregivers continue breastfeeding and practice good hygiene behaviors. The instructional handouts are translated into Runyankore, the local language, and provided to caregivers at their first pick up take home. All groups receive the IYCF handout along with the instructional handout for their particular feeding intervention."

To date, 206 Ugandan children have received Ekitobeero. This number is expected to grow when a second shipment of Ekitobeero is received in November.

Thank you again for supporting this important project to help Uganda children not only survive but thrive. We will update you with further progress reports later this year.