Thousands of children benefit from food processing model
Tuesday, 19/06/2018 23:33 (GMT+7)
The National Institute of Nutrition and Canada’s Ryerson University on June 18th announced the results of 3 years of implementing the project on improving food security among poor rural women’s families through scaling up small-scale food processing in Vietnam (ECOSUN) across the 3 mountainous provinces of Lao Cai, Lai Chau and Ha Giang.
Thousands of children escape from malnutrition thanks to ECOSUN. (Photo: suckhoedoisong.vn)
With the aim to reduce food security problems and malnutrition, especially among women and children, by addressing poverty and a lack of access to nutritious food, ECOSUN has improved nutritious food to suit local residents’ taste and aspiration.
Under the project, nearly 1,700 children under 2 years old, over 2,500 children across 10 pre-schools, hundreds of poor female farmers who have children from 6-23 months old, have had access to more nutritious food and instruction on how to raise children by breast feeding and processed food, helping remarkably reduce the rate of malnutrition. Of which 78.8% of children have sufficient meals and the rate of child malnutrition has been reduced from 3.3-4.2%.
Although the project has been completed, children and women in the 3 mountainous provinces have continued to benefit from the project as they were equipped with necessary nutrition knowledge and practice, while food processing foundations are still operational./.
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