More Food for Health
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Founding Story
Wabula
Pierre
More Food for Health (MFH)
, NK
, NK
Less than a year
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Still in idea phase, but looking to launch soon
Specific objectives of More Food for Health are to motivate young people to engage in tasks as working the soil and raising varieties of livestocks and dissiminating the practice of hygiene, to give knowledge to young trainers who in turn are sent to train village agriculturists how to maintain the soil in a healthy state and how to multiply the produce of agriculture into a surplus for massive consumption and trade, and to organize village agriculturists into cooperatives.
My solution was the promotion of the work of gardening at school. Many students at the boarding school were interested in hoeing the field in the school compound, so all unused land at school was planted with food to replace those foods that students used to buy in the market. As students got satisfaction from what they were then obtaining out of their gardens, they formed a structure called Club for Student Farmers with the aim of increasing the produce of garden work at school.
I will work hard to increase the knowledge and intelligence and responsibility of persons whose health is at risk because of malnutrition and lack of hygiene. This will consist in helping people to carry out new ideas regarding the production and the consumption of more food, the respect of the rules of hygiene and the promotion of common planning and effort of the people involved in farming and in all aspects of health care at village level: with the ambition of forming a big cooperative society made up of farmers in rural areas.
--It is important to notice the order of tasks in this innovation. The initial and intermediate terms tasks include:
Choosing 5 areas where we must work on the basis of needs.
Awakening in people the real meaning of man’s good health and showing what limits man’s achievement of good health.
Selection of the first team members of the non-medical services of health.
--The tasks for the long term period are:
Training course for local health pioneers.
Translation and distribution of the literature on the guidance of daily diet.
Searching new varieties of seeds and animals and showing people how to get more food out of the soil.
To help the integration of all the segments of a community, MFH partners with Churches, Leaders, the elite of community, and Families, who are drawn into the planning, the implementation and the evaluation of all the programs intended to improve the welfare of village-dwellers. Again, just as an aircraft needs a long runway before it can become airborne, so this project needs also help and other partners from other countries in order to achieve its goals.
This pilot innovation is currently targeting the Balega people in the east of the DRC, whose challeges of health care are more critical because medicaments and animal proteins, for example, are often out of reach for this poor community.
The key factors for the success of this innovation are: Integration and Collaboration. Integration ensures that this project is based on the local resources which are available. Collaboration ensures that the employees of this innovation are working well with other organizations and people outside MFH. The reason for this is that community problems originate from a variety of inter-related causes. Cnsenquently, the solution must be wholistic. For example, health problems may be caused by food problem which may be caused by worldview.
The sole support that is not specified within the list of needs I have mentioned above is the web-site production which can enable real time information sharing between MFH and organizations working in food security and hygiene.