I am no expert on this, but I believe that malnutrition have a big influence on the developement of a child, especially in the forming years. I believe that any improvement here, can make a great improvement in the life of the people in Mozambique.
In Chili a whole community were changed by better nutrition for children and helping parents to stimulate the children. All this in the first 1000 days of a child's life. They found that this input changed crime in such a way that the jail's that were over capacity full, only have 20% occupation and many such changes.
They talk about Zambezia province. We have good contact with the church in this province and I know this province very well. There is a medical project that is supporting a doctor and then there is the Anamed project. They teach people how to produce and use medicinal plants. One plant they use for malnutrition is the Moringa tree that is miraculously hige in all the amino acids, Vitamins c, Calsium, Potasium and more. When used with malnourished children, the effect is close to miraculous.
This tree grows very well in Zambezia province and you even find it growing wildly in the veld.
If you use this and treating the medical world view of people, I believe we can make a big difference.
May be there are people touched by this challenge? I would help where I can in a initiative like this!
Look at this article in the paper:
allAfrica.com: Mozambique: 43 Percent of Children Chronically Malnourished
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