SCD NUTRITION

I NOW HAVE ENOUGH VEGETABLES TO PREPARE MY MEALS

“Before now, vegetables in my community used to be like eating meat”. These were the words of Hajaratu Suleiman from Kawu Community who is one of the beneficiaries of the Nutrition and Hygiene component of the project funded by the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) with support from USAID. The project is being implemented by Society for Community Development in four communities of Bwari Area Council in FCT, Abuja-Nigeria.

Targeted at improving 42,000 vulnerable households in the FCT, Sokoto and Kebbi states, the Nutrition and WASH component of the project makes use of 21 nutrition and hygiene key messages delivered to caregivers through the Caseworker Model where caseworkers receive quarterly training from implementing CSOs and step-down the messages monthly to liaisons and liaisons supervisors who in turn use the messages to counsel enrolled households during group sessions and household visits.

Hajaratu Suleiman who is also one of the beneficiaries of the project narrated the benefits she has derived from the project so far.

According to her, “before now, we hardly grow vegetables; eating vegetable in this community was like eating meat. One of my community member (Liaison) would always visit me to tell me about home garden”

 She narrated that during group meetings with other women in her neighborhood, they were thought about nutrition and hygiene and encouraged to cultivate vegetable gardens which has now turned around the richness of her family diet.

“Today, I have variety of vegetables in my garden which I harvest and prepare meals for my family. Kudos to SCD and CRS and USAID she said.