Malnutrition

Malnutrition

Macroeconomic factors and recurrent natural disasters continue to exert a profound impact on the lives of the Afghan people. The vulnerability of Infants and young children and their mothers to malnutrition remains a pressing concern, exacerbated by factors such as food insecurity, poor feeding practices, and high morbidity due to limited access to essential services. In recent years, Afghanistan has faced a persistent and high burden of malnutrition,

Food insecurity and vitamin deficiency that leads to malnutrition in children and women has long been existing in the communities despite being agriculture dependent fruit threes and vegetables are rarely found fin the remote villages. To address these issues CAWC implemented livelihood improvement program in Daikundi province, under this program 200 kitchen gardens has been stablished for women and improved vegetable seed distributed to them, this program has been aimed at addressing malnutrition and vitamin deficiency, CAWC also stablished more than 100 orchard and nurseries of different varieties of fruits saplings, this has directly contributed to the malnourish decrement