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The principal goal of this project is to increase community members’ food security through improved farming productivity, household health, hygiene, and disease prevention behaviours and to increase the security of women and children. 70% of this project’s beneficiaries are women as the Anlong Veng District has the lowest percentage of male headed households. [This project currently qualifies for a CIDA 3:1 match - that means for every dollar you donate the Canadian International Development Agency will give three dollars!]
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This project seeks to improve health habits, general sanitation, and the hygiene and nutrition of the children and families through preventive health education. This program will directly impact 5,601 people. Some of the main activities include: recruitment and training of volunteer health promoters in areas of primary health, first aid, nutrition, disease prevention, and environmental sanitation, pinpointing the key sources of cases of sickness (children with malnutrition, respiratory problems, digestive issues, etc.) to health establishments, promoting health and sanitation campaigns, and providing visits by FH staff to the activities put on by the promoters with in their own communities.
Children are innocent victims of poverty and often the first to suffer from lack of food, clean water and healthy sanitation. At Food for the Hungry we believe we have a special calling to care for them. FH’s Child Development Program is designed to benefit the entire community: it works together with parents and community leaders to ensure that all children receive hope for their future. Your support of this project allows FH staff to provide access to food, education, medical care and clothing to needy children.
Kayanza is the most populated province of Burundi and its revenues are derived almost exclusively from agriculture. Major problems facing Burundian farmers today are poor soil quality, a declining rainfall, the destruction of forests and other ecosystems and an increase in returning refugees, which results in more tree-cutting for firewood and wood for shelters. This project focuses on erosion control, soil conservation, environment protection and community education in order to increase food production and security. The project is impacting an estimated population of 90,000 people!
In Peru, approximately 83% of women are victims of domestic violence. In slum areas and poor communities, incidents of abuse are suspected to be substantially higher than reported national averages. This project works to decrease domestic violence through educating families suffering from domestic violence about their rights, training community counselors, helping women develop income-generating skills and building partnerships with local churches, empowering them to take part in the program.
The goal of this project is to restore the secondary school located in Musema. By educating tomorrow’s leaders, this school will be a critical component in rebuilding a nation that has been torn apart by decades of mistrust and violence. Regardless of their ethnicity, religious orientation or gender, community members agree on the value and opportunity that this project will provide for their children.
