Project for Improvement of Living and Child Nutrition in Tay Nguyen

Kon Tum Province is located in the southwest of Da Nang city, which is in central Vietnam, and at highlands sharing borders with Laos and Cambodia. In addition to its severe geographic condition, the province has scarcely received support from foreign countries. Therefore, residents have difficulty to get out of the poverty. Moreover, many ethnic minority people who live in mountainous area have few opportunities to obtain information on health and nutrition, and capacities of staffs engaging in healthcare service are highly insufficient.

Nutrition issue is influenced by various factors such as daily meals, customs, and hygiene conditions. This means the improvement of children’s nutritional status requires an approach of considering their lives comprehensively.

FIDR had conducted “Kon Tum Province Child Nutrition Improvement Project for six years since 2012. We provided knowledge about nutrition and health for families having young children in Dak To District and Dak Glei District, and helped them with improving their lifestyles and their home hygiene conditions. At the same time, we contributed on capacity building of leaders who made local health care situations better. As a result, nutrition status of children in both districts was greatly improved.

Highly satisfied with this result, local authority of Kon Tum province requested FIDR to expand the support throughout the province.

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