Good Neighbors provides food aid to 6,737 people in Tanzania, along with nutrition and crop-growing training

[Financial News] Good Neighbors has released the results of its food assistance and nutrition improvement project in and around Tanzania’s Nyarugusu refugee camp, marking World Food Day (the 16th).
According to Good Neighbors on the 17th, the project began last November in partnership with the Community Chest of Korea and is worth about 500 million won. It provided emergency food to 6,737 refugees and residents of nearby areas, while also offering nutrition education for caregivers of infants and young children and crop-growing training for adolescents.
About 90,000 refugees who fled conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi and elsewhere live in Nyarugusu camp, in Tanzania’s northwestern Kigoma Region. Good Neighbors said food shortages in the camp are worsening as international support declines.
The World Food Programme (WFP) has noted that Tanzania’s strict camp residency policy limits refugees’ livelihood activities. As a result, refugees rely on food aid.
Good Neighbors provided rice, flour, powdered milk and other supplies to people eligible for assistance, including those with chronic illnesses, children under five and malnourished children. It taught 315 caregivers of children under five about planning balanced diets, breastfeeding and preparing complementary foods, and regularly monitored the children’s growth.
An education system was also set up to help residents address nutrition problems themselves. “Lead Mothers,” a group organized primarily among refugee women, provide nutrition education alongside local health workers. A total of 103 adolescents were taught crop-growing techniques, and some are volunteering to share agricultural knowledge with vulnerable groups.
Shadraka Wegoro, a Good Neighbors Tanzania project manager, said, “We observed positive changes in nutrition, including an 18-month-old child who had been severely underweight returning to a normal weight in just 90 days.”
Good Neighbors Secretary-General Jeon Mi-seon said, “On World Food Day, international attention and support are urgently needed for vulnerable people facing a food crisis as conflicts drag on.”
Last year, Good Neighbors carried out humanitarian assistance projects for 1,880,370 people in 26 countries around the world, including emergency relief, responses to food crises and child protection.
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