Healthy Diets for Healthy Communities in Cameroon

Since the inception of the community health programme “Accompanying Women for Healthy Babies” in the Muea Health Centre, the Food and Rural Development Foundation (FORUDEF) has been visiting the hospital every Monday during the women’s routine antenatal visits. During each visit we gave the women educative health talks and mainstream the importance of healthy diet during pregnancy and after birth. We also do a follow up by sending text messages to pregnant women on healthy dieting and remind them their next antenatal visits. This has gone a long way to improve on the women’s nutrition and health generally as we see an improvement in their health history.

Through the support of our Global Giving donors, we have given first response birth kits to women who started their Antenatal visits at 14 weeks, women who respected all their routine visits and also teenage girls who could barely afford a living. To the health centre we also gave the workers some T-shirts carrying the name of the programme and donated a blood pressure machine to the Health Center. 

During the presentation of the gifts the lead Nurse of the Antenatal unit welcomed FORUDEF’S Director and team. She expressed her profound joy and gratitude for the work FORUDEF has been doing. The women sang some of their antenatal educative songs. The Director for FORUDEF thanked the health centre administration for their cooperation and the opportunity offered to the pregnant women. He also urged them to encourage other women in the communities to attend antenatal care. The women were happy and also expressed their gratitude.