Help Our Nurturing Nutrition Program

Many current Alliance nutrition initiatives are focusing on proper nutrition through garden cultivation. Although this may sound somewhat mundane, the process is anything but. In order to have succesful women and school gardens, the most important part is ensuring that the water utilized in the garden is sanitary, which required building several new wells. Then, training was given - ensuring that efficient gardening and composting practices were being used and that produce was correctly being implemented into family diets. A component of economic training was also added into the training, as women were taught how to sell products and how to adequately store products that don't sell. This has diversified the traditional diet of villagers and helped to combat malnutrition.

The children's garden is similiar. It focuses on using hands-on learning as a method to teach proper nutrition in Alliance classrooms throughout the region. Students are most likely to retain what they've learned when they can practice it daily, as opposed to just reading about proper nutrition and the harmful effects of malnutrition from a textbook.

It certainly would have been "easier" to just construct wells and to "let the chips fall where they may". However, the Alliance's programs have always been about two things: working in partnership with villagers instead of imposing Western norms and sustainability. We take sustainability seriously, and always ensure that we invest in programs that are built to last for a long time. We could not do this without your support and for that I say, iniche.