Today, people all around the globe are celebrating World Health Day. We at SANGO-Kenya are joining, celebrating the better health of children, mothers, grandmothers — all of the more than 4,000 people who directly benefit from the improved diets — and health — enabled by SANGO-Kenya.
Since SANI-Kenya, we never have a meal without vegetables*.
SANGO-Kenya operates as SANI-Kenya in Kenya
The 750 mostly women farmers who receive SANGO-Kenya’s training in food security, nutrition, and improved livelihoods are strengthening their food and nutrition security as well as that of their children and all the members of their households. We are also having an impact on an increasing number of community members outside the program who come to our farmers to learn how to grow, prepare, and consume healthy African traditional vegetables.
As many health programs are being eliminated due to funding cuts, the benefits the communities gain from SANGO-Kenya’s emphasis on a healthy diet become all the more important.
And our farmers recognize it. They see it in their children and in themselves. Farmers repeatedly tell us that their children no longer have the skin sores they had from poor diets, and they go to the doctors less frequently.
One farmer recently told us that she had iron-deficient anemia. She had been taking medication, but it wasn’t until she joined SANGO-Kenya and began eating the iron-rich green leafy vegetables SANGO-Kenya promotes that she became healthy again.
Healthy mothers, healthy children. That’s something to celebrate.
Erokamano! Thank you! With much gratitude,
The SANGO-Kenya graduates, farmers, their children, and Winnie, Evance, Peter, Franck Junior, Connie, and Kit
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