Today we started the day by visiting Gardens for Health International. This is by far my favorite organization we have visited so far! So this organization takes an integrated approach to end malnutrition. They work at the intersection of health and agriculture to reduce the rates of chronic childhood malnutrition in the poorer neighborhoods in Kigali and the Gasabo District. So what they do is work closely with local health posts or the sector’s health center to identify children under 5 years old who are malnourished. From there they teach mothers how to grow and prepare healthy, balanced meals for their children from cheap market fruits and vegetables. They also teach them how to tend to a personal garden for even more healthy, sustainable and a ff ordable food choices. The cool part about this organization was that they taught these families how to successfully grow certain vegetables that are harder to grow in Rwanda so they can get the nutrients from them as well as sell them...
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