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HUNGER PROJECT SUPPORT NURSING MOTHER IN SIKABEN

Hunger project a non-governmental organization in collaboration with Ghana health service has organized food demonstration event educating nursing mothers on how to prepare food for their weaning children in Sikaben a village in the Yilo Krobo Municipality on the 8th May 2015.

The programme which was designed to improve feeding in babies brought together nursing mothers from different communities surrounding Sikaben.

The mothers were taken through some of the natural foods that are good for babies, such as; soya beans, groundnut, green leaves and others.

Mavis Adomaa a nurse in charge of the facilities at Poponya Epicenter in an interview with Rite FM’s news said, normally mothers think that only artificial foods can make their babies grow well hence feeding them with canned food denying the children the essential nutrients in natural foods thanks to the Hunger Project maternal mortality and neonatal death in Sikaben environs has reduced.

The Project Officer of Hunger Project in charge of Zone five (5) Mr. Peniel Rainarh said, the Hunger Project’s intervention has helped a lot especially in the delivery of quality health care the elimination of hunger in Ghana. He noted that the Hunger Project has begun the distribution of fertilizer to farmers in beneficial communities like Poponya, Boti, Akuni, Obenyemi in addition with initiated loan facilities amounting to $25,000 for the farmers to be able to purchase farm inputs for their farming activities.

The chief of the area Dademantse Gabriel Tetteh noted that, through Hunger Project, accessibility to health care has become easier because before the existence of Hunger Project one has to travel to a far place to access health care.

He is therefore grateful for what Hunger Project has done for them.

Source: Nyarko Francis/ritefmonline.org

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