SRAIN UGANDA AIMS AT 1 Creating self-reliant women and youth By training them on modern agriculture methods, to increase food production Providing agricultural inputs, to aid in agricultural works. 2 Improving nutrition By training the women and youth on dietary intake, to reduce on malnutrition Creating awareness on causes and effects of malnutrition, to enable them understand malnutrition. Providing continuous nutrition trainings, to enable the women and youth learn, understand nutrition.
1. According to the Uganda Nutrition Action Plan, 2.3 million young children in Uganda today are chronically malnourished, 16% of children under 5 are underweight while 6% are wasted, and 12% of women are malnourished accounting for about 2 million death 2. Inefficient farming systems, the practices such as inefficient production, poor extension services and limited access to technologies and other inputs contribute directly to the low productivity of small modelholders farmers, low production
SRAIN's mission is creating self-reliant women and youth with increased access to agricultural practice, engagement in gainful social economic and nutritional health. The project will empower women and youth with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to make smart choices when it comes to eating and taking care of their children's physical health. SRAIN will sensitise the local population on causes and effects of malnutrition through Nutrition Education and Communication (NEC) trainings
SRAIN will sensitise the local population on causes and effects of malnutrition through Nutrition Education and Communication (NEC)trainings. And also provide trainings on modern agricultural technologies.The impact will be designed to help address a critical gap in the evidence based regarding the degree to which agricultural involvements can improve the children and their parents' nutrition. It will also aim at establishment of proof of concept for an intervention model that will be replicated
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