By Heidi Reed | Edesia's Communications Manager
Today I wanted to share with you the latest update from Uganda. We just received these photos and the wonderful news that this adorable little girl enrolled in the Ekitobeero program is doing well and growing up healthy.
This beautiful little girl is 15 months old and lives in Ruhiira parish with her family. She has been receiving Ekitobeero lipid-based nutrient supplements for 9 months and really enjoys it. Her Community Health Worker, Penelope Katubeho, visits her on a monthly basis and assesses her nutritional status by taking a measurement of her mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC). Both her mother and CHW note that she is growing very well.
These photos were taken during a visit by the study’s Data Safety and Monitoring Board. The mother brought out some packages of Ekitobeero to show the DSMB members and the little girl immediately lit up with excitement when she saw the packages and grabbed at them. She loves the taste of Ekitobeero and we are glad to know that it may be helping to prevent both acute and chronic malnutrition in young children living in the Ruhiira Millennium Village cluster area.
Thank you again for supporting this worthy project to help strengthen children in Uganda - through nutritional interventions that come at a time when they need it most.
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