INTRODUCTION
Self Help Africa's Food and Nutrition project in North-western Province is being undertaken amongst rural communities in Mwinilunga and Kabompo districts. The project is being run in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and the National Food and Nutrition Commission.
LOCATION
Work is taking place amongst 2,500 households where people are living with HIV/AIDS.
PROJECT OBJECTIVE
The project objective is to improve food security, livelihood and coping capacity of 2,500 households which have a member living with HIV/AIDS.
The project aims to boost existing income generating activities through expanded ‘light-weight’ cultivation and off-farm products. It also aims to promote small livestock production, facilitate market linkages and provide trainings in basic entrepreneurial skills, and to link households to existing HIV/AIDS support structures
In addition, the project aims to improve access to information on nutrition and positive living in households in which someone is living with HIV/AIDS. The project works the Ministry of Health, and the National Food and Nutrition Commission, to run two nutrition workshops with caregivers and medical staff, as well as linking with local community radio programming.
Running until the end of 2012, the project also aims to strengthen the nutrition monitoring systems of the local health centres and establish a link to the Ministry of Health Information system, identify gaps and weaknesses in existing Health Information Management System, and strengthen nutrition monitoring activities in rural health centres.
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