DISPLACED CHILDREN NUTRITION SUPPORT IN NIGERIA

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NUTRITIONAL FOOD FOR 2500 INTERNALLY DISPLACE AND MALNOURISHED CHILDREN.

 SUMMARY

This project will provide nutritional food for at least 2500 internally displaced and malnourished children as a result of terrorist’s attacks on over 100 villages between May 2023 to February 2024 in Mangu and Bokkos local governments of Plateau State Nigeria. The children, ages 5-10 years, are facing starvation and malnutrition due to poor feeding in the IDP camps, making their body vulnerable to illness and the long-term effect can be devastating. A meal per day for these children will not only save and sustain their body system, but will translate to better nutrition, healthier children and invariably better future.

CHALLENGES
The attacks on villages in these local governments continue to expand thereby increasing the number of displaced children living in temporary shelters (Internally displaced persons Camps) without any source of livelihood. The demands for food continue to increase with no adequate resources to meet the demands.

Their mental states require proper feeding to sustain the stability of their minds therefore, this provision will help provide food that will improve nutrition of the children as they are in dire needs of nutritional foods to sustain their health while waiting for a permanent solution.

SOLUTION
This project will provide nutritional meals to at least 2500 malnourished children in the IDP Camps to boost their health.

LONG-TERM IMPACT
The nutritional food will improve and sustain their mental health, and build a good immune and body system in the children for healthy growth and development. It will also inculcate the virtues of love, support for one another and build the spirit of unity among the children growing up. It will erase in them, the negative memory that could have occurred as a result of hunger, starvation and possibly dead if such support where not provided.

RESOURCE MOBILIZATION EFFORTS
We have partnered crowdfunding platforms to raise the needed funds to accomplish the project goal and objectives. These include-:

Community Engagement: We have engaged community leaders within the affected local government to assist in mobilization of support and provision of relevant data that will guide the effective implementation of the project.

Partnership with GlobalGiving: The project has been uploaded and promoted to prospective donors and philanthropists around the whole to make donations to provide nutritional food for the displaced children in IDP camps. Some of the major campaign that featured the project on GlobalGiving include, 2024 little by little campaign, although no donation was gotten but we remain committed to the cause and looking forward to participating in the remaining campaigns coming up in July and December this year 2024. The goal of the project is to raise $10,497 to provide nutritional food to at least 2500 displaced and malnourished children in mangu and Bokkos local governments, of plateau state Nigeria.

Networking with Local friends and volunteers: Apart from the crowdfunding initiative, we have also reached out to friends and volunteers to support the fundraising goal of the project. This has provided us with the following items in support of the project goal and other pressing needs in the IDP Camp.

ü14 Wheel chairs for displaced people living with disability in the IDP Camp.

ü2 bags of Garri (Cassava Produce)

ü1 bag of sugar

ü3 bags of clothes

ü1 bag of shoes

ü56 blankets(sleeping Aid)

ü6 cartons of 6x40 biscuits food

These items were collected and distributed to the beneficiaries in the IDP Camp.

UNEXPECTED CHALLENGES

While these efforts are being made to tackle the documented challenges, the attacks continue unabated on more communities in mangu and Bokkos local governments leading to more deaths and increased number of displaced children in the IDP Camps. The demand for food has increased and the risk of malnutrition is on the rise therefore, the need to urgently achieve the existing goal of this project becomes imperative to reduce the increase risk of malnutrition and cushion the effect of the hardship being faced by these children.

An estimated 34, 000 people has been reportedly displaced due to the continues attacks on villages. Of this number, large amount of them are children. Over 200 people lost their lives to the attacks, mostly women and children. At least 2000 people sustained bullets and other various degrees of injuries and currently being treated in hospitals. Over 300 houses were completely burnt down by the terrorists.

OUR STRATEGY AND EXPECTATION

We have carried out another need assessment survey in the IDP camps which has help us to identify the increasing number of displaced children and the worsening condition of their mental health largely caused by inadequate and poor feeding in the camps.

This has prompted us to promote digital fundraising campaigns on social media to draw stakeholders’ attention to the situation and at the same time raise fund to provide the needs of the victims. The campaigns are still active online and we are expecting to get support as we continue to follow up.

We are also looking forward to participating in the forthcoming campaigns on GlobalGiving in July and December, 2024. This will present a great opportunity for us crowdfund to reach the goal of this project and put smiles on faces of these children.

We will also be expanding our network of friends and volunteers to support the project goal and needs.

Our expectation is to reach the project goal by the end of 2024.


THANK YOU

We are sincerely grateful to our donors for their support and kindness towards these children. We remain committed to ensure that, your contributions are always channel to the right cause at the right time.

 

Comr. Ladi Iliya

Founder/Executive Director

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