The need for climate change resilient food production and resources that support this must be readily available to the global community.

This brief video explains the work of Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action; an organisation that creates these tools and resources.

Contact us to learn more.

In Ethiopia, 36.8% of children under 5 are affected by stunting, leading to a life of disadvantage. Child health services are often fragmented, resulting in poor service quality and attendance. Childcare services are unaffordable for low-income communities. These issues create an obstacle to women’s economic empowerment and result in poorly nourished children.

Nutrition 4 Education & Development (N4ED) (http://n4ed.org) is a registered Ethiopian civil society organization, established in 2016. They have initiated a project – Nutrition, Early Childhood Development & Women Empowerment through an Integrated Children’s center – to address these problems. N4ED has successfully conducted hundreds of community-based nutrition and health education programs, whilst initiating enterprises for women to enable their economic independence.

This project will create a first of its kind community children’s center with child health, childcare and training services for marginalized communities in the Lafto area (south of Addis Ababa).

It will provide proven hands-on education and training programs and affordable childcare to:

• Improve the nutritional status, health, and early childhood development of over 90,000 children under five each year.
• Enable women’s economic empowerment.

The project has two key partners:

• Nifas Silk Lafto Woreda 12 Public Health Center who will host the children’s center and co-implement the center activities.
• Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group who will create proven educational materials that encompass agriculture, local food plants and nutrition as one topic.

The Rotary Clubs of Addis Ababa Central Mella, Addis Ababa West and Entoto from District 9212 (Ethiopia), the Rotary Club of Hobart District 9830 Tasmania (Australia), and the Rotary Club of Binghamton District 7170 Upstate New York (USA) are collaborating to raise funds and apply for a Global Grant for this project.

US$ 119,880 is required for the 1^st phase of the project. Involved clubs and districts have raised US$ 54,000 to date. Another US$ 26,600 DDF funds are needed for the global grant to request matching funds from The Rotary Foundation.

Donate:

• For Rotary Clubs and Districts – http://www.matchinggrants.org/global/project3021.html
• Private donations, direct deposit
• Bank Name: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Sarbet branch, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
• Beneficiary name: Nutrition 4 Education & Development
• SWIFT CODE: CBETETAA
• Account Number: 1000462737428

For more information contact:

Food Plant Solutions Rotary Action Group info@foodplantsolutions.org

Nutrition for Education and Development N4ED n4ed.org@gmail.com

CVC (Christ’s Victory Centre) is a registered community-based organization solely established by refugees from the Democratic Republic of the Congo in September 2009 in Githurai 45 in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. Observing the challenges facing refugees, IDPs and extremely poor families in Nairobi, CVC uses an initiative approach to provide education and livelihoods to over 300 children and their mothers. The organization’s circulative system ensures sustainability and allows for the long-term creation of peaceful and prosperous communities.

CVC thrives for a world in which every individual, aware of his or her value and dignity, takes charge of his or her personal development and that of the community, even in moments of crisis and extreme need.

Beneficiaries 

• Refugee children and IDPs
• Orphans and homeless children
• Children from extremely poor families or parents with chronic diseases
• Youth and women

By running a nursery and school with over 300 children, CVC seeks to integrate its beneficiaries into society and enable them to the creation of self-reliant, independent lives for themselves and future generations. CVC aims at developing every individual’s talent and skills in diverse fields and equip them with new capabilities, but also through various programs, including pigs and vegetable farming, as well as sewing businesses.

The Food Plant Solutions project was designed to address malnutrition through the use of readily available and local food sources. Also it creates educational publications that help people understand the connection between plant selection and nutrition, and empower them to grow a range of highly nutritious plants with differing seasonal requirements and maturities. Food Plant Solution also is good in identifying food plants that are potentially important for a country or region because they are suited to the environment, they are high in nutrients and they grow with minimal inputs.

The materials the Food Plant Solution provided to us were used to enhance leaning within our school and it helped our refugee women who are our parents to identify the quality and good vegetables to grow here in Kenya.

The International Centre for Environmental Education and Community Development (ICENECDEV) was established in 2005 to address key environmental issues, which affects lives, livelihoods and communities in Cameroon and African countries.

ICENECDEV is taking a comprehensive approach to strengthening agricultural system, fighting hunger and strengthening food security at scale. 

ICENECDEV train farmers on  conservation and sustainable agriculture activities, including:

• Agricultural Literacy
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Agroforestry and Agroecology

ICENECDEV is partnering with Food Plant Solutions to address malnutrition and achieve food security through the use of readily available local food sources.  The partnership will empower the farmers network and group of stakeholders.  It will promote the use and access of educational resources to educate communities on the nutrient value of their local foods and scale up the impacts through our local, national, and international agricultural networks.