By Katherine Zavala | Asia Program Director, IDEX
Project Update
• 28 group members have the capacity to process the basic necessities to provide to their family. • 32 group members have received training in nutrition and have learned to consume good quality food as well as to take the necessary steps towards improving family members’ health. • 41 group members have learned about keeping a healthy and active life as pregnant mothers and as caregivers of their children. This will help decrease the child mortality rate in the area and ensure a safe motherhood for the women. • 13 group members are managing income-generating activities, which have increased their household income. • 22 group members are currently producing high-quality food in the area. • 35 group members are managing small businesses. • 10 group members are producing high-quality food for the local market. • 15 group members are growing vegetables in their premises to sell in the local market as well for their own family consumption. • Pregnant mothers & children up to the age of five are having access to medicines, and in this way, common diseases are decreasing. • Water-borne diseases are gradually reducing. • By observing these impacts, other group members have become encouraged to also learn how to produce high-quality food, and obtain knowledge on health issues.
Project Outcomes
• Under this project, 40 groups with a total of 1,200 people have been organized. • 40 group members have received food-processing training • 60 group members have learned about mother & child health care. • 30 group members have received business skills training. • 40 group members have started food production as a source of income generation. • 50 group members have initiated small businesses.
SATU is planning to discuss with the project beneficiaries about the project success in their upcoming group meetings. In some cases, SATU will organize workshops and seminars to share this information. In addition, SATU will record this discussion by including a chapter about this project in their annual report.
Project reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you can receive an email when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports without donating.
