Mauritania is mostly covered by the sands of Sahara (in more than 80%). It is the fourth most sensitive country in the world in terms of climate changes.Although it is populated by only 4.4 million people, it is a classic example of the problem of hunger caused by poverty and insufficient production of food.
Democratic Republic of Congo is the second largest country of Africa, full of paradoxes. On one hand, it is rich in natural resources; on the other hand, its inhabitants are among the poorest in the world. For decades, the DRC has been suffering from prolonged conflicts that have led to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world.
Mauretania
Democratic Republic of Congo
“The fact that every year, tens of millions of men, women and children die of hunger, is the biggest outrage of our century. Every five seconds, a child under the age of ten starves to death, and this on a planet overflowing with wealth.” Jean Ziegler (former UN special Rapporteur on the Right to Food).
Hunger leads to debilitating disease, which first and foremost takes away one’s will to seek help. In order to prevent that from happening, we provide aid for starving children in two feeding centers – in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the village of Ntamungenga as well as in Kaédi, Mauritania.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, every week, we help about 100 children suffering from diagnosed malnutrition or hunger disease. Last year, we saved 1,000 children from starvation. Our center is the best running facility in the entire province of Northern Kivu.
The center in Kaédi is a bit smaller, with just two employees, who take care of nearly one hundred children a week. Last year, we were able to save 354 children from hunger disease.
The number of kids suffering from acute malnutrition who come to our center keeps increasing. This is due to the very difficult situation in both regions. Congo continues to be on the verge of an armed conflict, with local criminals and rebels taking advantage of the volatile situation. In Mauritania, climate change has led to water deficits and, consequently, insufficient food production.
In addition to feeding children, we also focus our efforts on long-term support. We teach parents how to cultivate plants in our hospital garden. They also learn about the basic principles of nutrition. We provide food supplies for those days, when they are not with us. Last year, we trained 860 guardians on the principles of nutrition and cultivating a home garden. We hope this will prevent further cases of malnutrition among children. We regularly visit our patients in their homes. The visits are unannounced and their aim is to check in with the guardians to make sure they have been following recommendations given by the nutrition center, such as creating small home gardens to enrich their families’ diets. Our nurses weigh and examine the children, and let their parents and guardians know that they will be back with another unannounced visit.
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21.09.2018
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26.03.2019
Time for some news from Congo. Just because we haven’t posted any recent updates doesn’t mean we have nothing to report. In fact, the opposite is true – sister Agnieszka and the entire team have had their hands full. Tons of new patients and increasingly difficult cases have caused the nutrition center to be bursting […]
04.07.2019
Esperence means hope. It is also the name of this two-year-old girl, who needs hope more than anything else. She was born in the midst of turmoil. Neither the government nor her parents, who were constantly arguing among themselves,were able to protect her. In the end, her parents parted ways. Cutting himself off from his […]
