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Keep healthy In recent times we have heard a lot in the media about the nutritional value of food and its connection with health. This connection is no surprise to the staff of Nakonde Area Development Programme (ADP) in Zambia.
Over the last two decades it has become increasingly difficult for over 75 per cent of the households in Nakonde to find food. A number of factors could be responsible for this, but it is mainly due to declined agricultural productivity, diseases, including malaria and HIV/AIDS, and an increased cost of living. World Vision is working with the community to reverse these trends. Through Nakonde ADP, it is establishing Nutrition Clubs to promote the consumption of nutritious locally available foods. World Vision staff say: “Although there are nutritious foods available within the communities of Nakonde, people did not use them, because they did not appreciate their nutritional value.” The Nutrition Clubs help change people’s attitudes to local foods. They are beginning to realise that foods they had regarded as useless for many years are nutritious after all. “I used to think that we only ate local foods because we were poor – that if only we had more money we could buy other, more nutritious, foods,” explain Lumeta, a mother from Chilonga villge. The clubs also train people to grow local vegetables in their own kitchen gardens. Community orchards are popular too. In Mwenzo village, scores of children go to the orchard every day for fun. They help themselves to juicy fruits like guavas, oranges and paw paws and now they understand the benefits of eating them. Thanks to World Vision the Nakonde community now knows that good nutrition is achievable, even on their meagre incomes. |
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