TODDLER FOOD PARTNERS

Helping malnourished children.

Our Goals

Our primary goal is to prevent or treat malnutrition that often occurs after weaning in children of poor families in rural areas of developing countries.  We do this by providing indigenous people with the means to make nutritious food supplements that people can safely produce, ideally without electricity or fuel.

To achieve these goals, we train and equip small groups in the local communities to work in partnerships to safely produce and dispense these supplements that we call “toddler food”.

Our work is necessary as a complement to the efforts of large organizations like the UN for three reasons:

1.  We focus our efforts on small clinics in remote areas of poor but relatively stable countries.

2.  We are not involved in disaster relief. This approach is part of a growing trend toward community-based medical treatment in developing countries.

3.  We use food supplements recently tested by medical researchers in Africa that can be prepared locally and stored at home without refrigeration and yet are as effective in relieving malnourishment as existing UN formulations.  This allows a mother to treat malnourishment at home instead of leaving the rest of her family for a month or more to attend a large feeding center. Local health care workers dispense the supplements and monitor recovery.

 

 

We help local communities effectively address a local problem, becoming independent of large institutions.