Alumni Seed Projects

Agriculture and Nutrition Project at Sandleni Community, Swaziland

Siyabonga Kwanele Simelane, Swaziland
MSc in Nutrition Class of 2013-14

PROMOTING AGRICULTURE AND NUTRITION PROJECT AT SANDLENI COMMUNITY, SWAZILAND

An amazing and inspiring project of one of our Alumni. The project's main goal is to improve the nutrition and health status of the Sandleni Community for all vulnerable groups, especially orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) by providing effective, comprehensive, decentralized, coordinated, sustainable and enabling environment for the provision of food and nutrition services.

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ANTICIPATED CONTRIBUTION OF THE FINDINGS/PROJECT TO THE CHALLENGES OF MY COMMUNITY

To reduce morbidity and mortality due to nutrition related conditions. Chronic malnutrition will be alleviated among children because there will be enough food for everyone including pregnant women. The livelihood of the community members will be improved because they will be able to produce food enough to feed their families and also sell the surplus to finance other bills. Employment opportunities will also be improved. This will be a contribution towards a well fed society, resulting to less malnutrition and stress related health problem, in turn improving the country’s life expectancy.

COLLABORATING ORGANIZATIONS

ORGANIZATION	ACTIVITIES
Swaziland Infant Nutrition Action Network	A non-governmental organization mandated to carry out the national infant and young children feeding issues.
World Food Programme	Technical and financial support in the Nutrition and HIV programme.
World Health Organization	Technical and financial support in nutrition programmes.
Swaziland Government (Ministry of Agriculture)	Technical support on best practises in agriculture for the production of high quality yield. Facilitate food security by subsidizing costs of farm inputs to farmers engaged in commercial mixed farming.