Education Peru Project #45256

Save more than 630 kids from anemia in rural Peru!

by Misión Huascarán

Save more than 630 kids from anemia in rural Peru!

Project Report | Jan 16, 2023
2022 Second trimester Nutrition Report

By Pim van den Hoven | Head of Social Projects of Mision Huascaran

Dear donors, we would like to express our most profound and sincere gratitude for your contributions. Thanks to your continued support, our Nutrition Program continues to thrive obtaining impressive results, despite the difficult global economic landscape and the unstable political situation in Peru. These are challenging times for everyone, however remaining united and commitmented to the cause we are confident we will overcome the current situation.

Nutrition program progress report up to September 2022

Nutrition improvements

The anti anemia Bakery at the Amashca school has been functioning for five full months now, providing daily portions of iron enriched bread to +700 children and pregnant women from Utupampa, Huashcao, Canchapampa, Congar, Punyan, Amashca, Pisca and Pariaqaqa townships. Each bread provides between 80-90% of the daily dietary iron requirement!!! Up to september 2022, we have distributed +150.000 breads to our beneficiaries.
In July, the first acceptability test of the organoleptic properties of the iron enriched bread was performed under the target audience of vulnerable children and pregnant women. Our in-house created bread formulas received a high acceptancy rate.
Milk (100s of cans) and fish (4 TM) were handed out for free thanks to our corporate allies benefitting thousands of rural vulnerable Andean families, providing them with nutrient rich complementary foods.
Mid july the Egg Laying Henhouse Project in Pariaqaqa was inaugurated. Since the beginning of August 2022, 60 children receive an egg a day as a complementary protein source in their diet. The egg-a-day provide the children with 7 grams of additional protein intake.
Personal higiene kits were handed out to all +700 children in the Nutrition Program in july.
We continued the capacitation training of our Guiding Mothers, whom are leading figures in their communities, whom support with the bread distribution, our various other nutrition oriented activities and also provide guidance to other members of their respective communities.
Various demonstration sessions were organized and the Nutrition Program participated in the Mision Huascaran´s Health Campaigns during the third quarter with dozens of benefitted participants and patients.
During the quarter, with the help of our Guiding Mothers, regular visits to dozens of family and school vegtable gardens were realized, these visits to different schools and towns were also used to monitor the consumption of the iron enriched bread by the children and pregnant women.

To expand our reach, we require all the help you can give through the GlobalGiving platform. In a world full of challenges for our societies; and well nutured children are the hope for a bright future.

We thank you for all the help you’ve given and will continue to give in the future.

Mision Huascaran team

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Sep 22, 2022
2022 Second trimester Report - Nutrition

By Ana B. Fernandez-Dodds | Member of the board

Personal hygiene kits distribution

Dear donor, we would like to express our most profound and sincere gratitude for all your contributions. Due to the help awarded by each and every one of you, the nutritional project continues to thrive, even throughout the difficulties originated by the global pandemic. These are hard times, but with unity and commitment we are confident we will overcome the current situation.

Nutrition program progress report up to June 2022

Nutrition improvements

Bakery inauguration at Amashca school on May 2022, we will provide daily portions of iron enriched bread to 720 children and pregnant women from Utupampa, Huashcao, Canchapampa, Congar, Punyan, Amashca, Pariaqaqa and Yanarumi towns
Milk distribution, hemoglobin screening and nutrition evaluation performed to Canchapampa and Huashcao children in May and June
During the medical campaign held at Ampu town, we have provided balanced nutrition talks, we had 70 attendees (housewives, pregnant women and children) in April
We carry out planning sessions at Pariaqaqa to organize the Laying hens project construction. This project will improve the protein intake in children, by distributing one egg per child every day.
Demonstration sessions of maternal and child nutrition at Huashcao and Tingua during April 2022
We delivered cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, radishes, chard, and spinach seeds for 8 school organic gardens during May 2022
We continued visiting families at Huashcao town to monitor anemia control with ferrous sulfate dose consumption
2 tons fish distribution in June to Cachopampa, Utupampa, Cruzcoto, Huayapon, Shoropunta, Pisca, Armapampa, Mamapampa, Ushno, Yauyo, Queruran, Poncos communities, benefiting more than 1,000 families thanks to the donation of Pesquera Diamante S.A.
164 personal cleaning kits distribution at Amashca, Huashcao, Canchapampa and Congar where we taught and reinforced the hygiene habits to preschooland primary school students in June
During June we participated in the health campaigns of Yungay, Poncos, Tingua, Ranrahirca and Musho towns by providing 76 nutritional counseling sessions and conducting 11 educational talks to 102 attendees

To continue expanding our reach, we require all the help you can give – utilizing the GlobalGiving platform. The world continuously makes us face great challenges for our societies; and the children are the light and hope at the end of the tunnel for a bright future.

We thank you for all the help you’ve given and will continue to give in the future.

Mision Huascaran team

Fish distribution

Nutrition talks

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Jun 3, 2022
2022 First Trimester report

By Ana B. Fernandez-Dodds | Board member

Fish distribution

Nutrition program progress report up to March 2022

We have increased our target audience from 335 children to 630 children. We have also included children under 3 years of age and pregnant women. We were able to reduce anemia prevalence from 19% to 9% and keep reducing it even more

Nutrition improvements

Distribution of vitamin C pouch for 304 children and 26 knitters.
Implementation of a bakery workshop as learning facility for Amashca secondary students. The production of high in iron bread will be distributed among children of 7 towns and pregnant women
Hired a new nutrition program assistant to cover more towns
Implemented 80 biogardens
Followed up on organic gardens with carrots, beets, spinach, chard, and radish for 240 families, monitored by our nutritionists
Demonstration sessions for expectant mothers and mothers of children from 0 to 12 years old. Topics: Nutritious food - children 6 months – 1 year + Nutritious food - all ages - ATTENDEES – 54 PEOP
Three interactive workshop with school children – Topics: Handwashing, Personal hygiene Parasites, food group: builders, energy, protectors, anemia - ATTENDEES – 166 CHILDREN
Compile 2022 target population register, considering the new schools and the information provided by the Health Posts
Monthly guide mothers workshop – topics: Handwashing, Personal hygiene, Ferrous sulfate intake supervision, Iron rich foods, Maternal - child nutrition+ GROCERIES BASKET DISTRIBUTION
Food distribution donated by Peruvian Food Bank – March 2022
Delivery of Soy Milk & Cereal – January and March 2022
Assisted medical campaign at Pariaqaqa and Acopampa with: Triage, nutritional consulting and feeding of the elderly (care in small groups)

We thank you for all the help you’ve given and will continue to give in the future.

Mision Huascaran team

Demostration session - guide mothers

Handwashing interactive workshop

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