The Hunger Project

This Day created by The Hunger Project to bring awareness to the more than 690 million people living in chronic hunger during this global crisis. We ask the world to come together with a shared goal of realizing healthy, fulfilling lives of self-reliance and dignity for all.

On Wednesday 19th April 2021 we handed over the Anyansu Epicenter in the Asuogyaman District in the Eastern Region of Ghana to the 8 communities under the Epicenter. We will continue to work with these communities regardless of our administrative absence.

Monitoring and Evaluation is key to what we do as an organization. It’s helps us to review and revise strategies used in implementing policies. It has become a major part of all our trainings. Our M & E officer, Francis is currently taking animators through the format used.

On the final day of our capacity building workshop, we started the day with back to back support group practice sessions for participants with the intention of strengthening the facilitation skills of our volunteers. They were placed in groups with supervision from our trainers.

1/2 Naomi says through this workshop she has come to understand that, HIV positive nursing mothers can breastfeed babies from day of birth to the 12th month before weaning. She says she is poised to help a lot of mothers in this situation when she returns to her Epicenter.

1/2 Naomi is a volunteer from the Akpo Epicenter. Naomi is a participant of the capacity building workshop. She says HIV positive mothers in her community do not breastfeed their babies because they feared they will transfer the virus through breastfeeding.

In the last 3 days we have equipped our local partners or community animators with the relevant information and guidance needed to facilitate mother to mother support groups. We believe the knowledge acquired will help reduce the malnutrition and infant mortality numbers. Day 3

It will be great to share teachings and discussions at our mother to mother support groups with other women in our communities: Eastern Regional Nutrition Officer of the Ghana Health Service, Mr. Sarkodie to our 30 participants at the ongoing capacity building workshop.

2/2 Participants of the ongoing workshop for mother to mother support groups were informed to encourage nursing mothers to use locally produced foods. This we believe will help mothers to oblige to the teachings or discussions at the meetings of mother to mother support groups.

1/2 Appropriate complementary feeding should start at 6 months of age using small amounts of food with increasing quantity as the child gets older, However some mothers are unable to comply with this because they think one needs enough money to buy these baby supplements.

Day 3 of the ongoing Training workshop in Breastfeeding and Complementary Feeding Basics and Mother-to-Mother Support Groups for animators is in session with a review of yesterday's activities.

In Ghana close to one in every 5 children under 5 years is stunted while one in every 10 children under 5 is underweight. In the next 4 days we are going to build the capacity of 30 volunteers from 15 Epicenters to facilitate mother to mother support groups in their communities

The only way we can ensure that new mothers strictly adhere to exclusive breastfeeding during the first 6 months after birth is to provide them with enough information that will enable them appreciate the practice. THP Ghana's Country Director to our 30 participants.

Our 30 community volunteers drawn from 15 Epicenter facilities have so far been taken through the following topics: •Benefits of breastfeeding •How the breast makes milk •Positioning & attachment •Excusive breastfeeding •Breast feeding challenges & in special situations