In its continued support to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and the vulnerable to combat malnutrition, the World Food program (WFP) has supported 1718 women and 2086 children in 8 communities of Gujba LGA of Yobe state. For the month of July, BSFP supported these women and children with a total of 12.516MT of Corn Soya Blend [CSB++] for children under age 2, and 12.885MT of CSB+ and 1.289MT of vegetable oil. The children smiled home with 6kg of CSB++ and the women got 7.5kg of CSB+ and 0.75kg of vegetable oil.
The project in partnership with the Centre for Community Development and Research Network (CCDRN) achieved this through the Blanket Supplementary Feeding Program (BSFP) where nutritious food supplements are distributed to prevent malnutrition among Pregnant and Lactating Women (PLW) and children under 2 years.
For Gulani LGA, General Food Distribution (GFD) reached 60, 226 beneficiaries and BSFP reached 3614 of children under age two and 3011 PLW with food commodities such as sorghums, beans, vegetable oils and salt for the month of July and August.
As a preparation to the distribution, awareness were carried out to sensitize beneficiaries on entitlements, content, and proper use of nutritious food given to them, the need to stop the sale of commodities, issues of gender, male/female power relations and all forms of exploitation/abuse, the misuse of entitlements by caregivers as this may have implications on the health and nutritional well-being of the child.
The importance of this support cannot be over emphasized, seeing that the rate of malnutrition is on the rise and it will go a long way in helping to improve the diet of these children and women. To ensure successful distribution, the Monitoring and Evaluation of CCDRN team were on ground to guarantee that the beneficiaries were given fair and equal treatment and they were not exploited in any way.
