Antonella Demarchi and Costanzo Bellando, respectively Executive Director and Founding Member of NutriAid, meet with the local community of a rural municipality particularly vulnerable to child malnutrition.
After meeting with the Child Malnutrition Fight Committee established as part of the project “High Technology to Combat Malnutrition,” supported by NutriAid’s local staff and the nursing staff of the Senegalese health system, the delegation visited Loul Sessène's health center.
Here, it participated in nutrition education meetings with mothers, nutritional screenings of children aged 0-59 months, and distribution of weaning flours for children suffering from chronic malnutrition.
These flours are produced by NutriAid using local agricultural products such as millet, maize, rice, and peanuts, skillfully blended to create hyper-protein and energy-rich foods. These are designed to help restore normal weight in malnourished children within a few weeks.
In the villages of Loul Sessène, one in ten children is malnourished. NutriAid works daily alongside children to help eradicate poverty and hunger, even in the most remote areas.
"High Technology to Fight Malnutrition" is a project funded by the Italian Presidency of the Council of Ministers through the 8x1000 Irpef quota.
