Kon Tum Province Child Nutrition Improvement Project

Project Site

Dak Glei District and Dak To District in Kon Tum Province

Beneficiaries

• Approx. 1,500 children under two years old in the target areas (including approx. 850 malnourished children)
• Mothers having children under two years old, pregnant women, and women in reproductive age in the target areas.

Main Activities

1. Improvement on nutrition and hygiene knowledge of pregnant women and mothers: Conducting training,forming networks
2. Improvement of meals for children under two years old: Conducting cooking demonstration class, developing home garden, raising poultry
3. Development of hygienic environment: Installment of simple latrine, provision of safe water
4. Improvement on health care service: Training of village health worker, conducting workshop

Project Period

FY2012～FY2015

Our Approach

We aim at reducing the number of malnourished children. We work mostly with mothers as when mothers gain proper knowledge and put them into practice in cooking their children’s meals and when the networks among mothers, village health workers, etc. are formed and functioned, it will be most effective in long-term perspectives in fulfilling the purpose.