Reducing malnutrition by provide vegetable to 50 school,and educate them.

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Evidence in Tanzania shows that high absenteeism, lack of concentration

in class and early dropouts are the results of short term hunger. About

50% to 70% of students go to school without breakfast and they do not

get any meal during school hours. The outcome of short-term hunger in

the long run are the following major nutritional problems namely

stunting, low body weight and micro nutrients malnutrition including

deficiencies of who consumes inadequate amount of food necessary to meet

the body’s energy and nutrients requirement have diminished cognitive

abilities, reduce school performance, retardation, reduced physical

activities, impaired resistance to infections and increased morbidity

and mortality rate and hence adverse effects on productivity incomes and

national development (Food and Nutrition centre 2006).
This

challenge is noted in the Babati district in Manyara region as one of

the issues for primary and secondary children involving / seeking for

education at schools, there are some reasons which lead to increased

problems including those which emanate from the society such as low food

production poverty, no vegetable production, environment, attitude

toward vegetables food intake at schools and others.
Tanzania low

level of production about (3.3%), for Tanzania if this volume might

increase at least three times to (10%) of “diets”, this might build up

the value addition of vegetable to enable community development lead

reducing poverty the campaign will sensitize the community to use

vegetable on diet and commercial bases .
Project will to

contribute to the support nutrition increase to the students in primary

and secondary school children on school feeding program and marketing

long-term growing vegetable. Its mission is: “producing marketing

vegetables, healthier children for better community”. The medium-term

development plan is to enhance the ability of youth farmers in Babati to

increase and sustain agricultural production for increase children

nutrition, improved household food security and income generation while

at the same time safeguarding the environment by adopting sustainable

agricultural practices. The specific objectives includes the following
o

To assist youth and women farmers to engage Vegetable growing to

improve nutritional status, food security and marketing - free supply

approach to school feed program.
o To promote awareness among local

communities of the values and importance of consumption vegetable for

different purposes including dieting vegetable for health conciseness.
o

To enhance capacity of vegetable grower and farming households to

apply appropriate vegetable sustainable farming practices through

awareness and training workshops, information dissemination and

extension services.
o To mobilize small scale vegetable growers to

Farmers’ groups and a Community Association to manage and sustain the

activities initiated under the project and take advantage of the

economies of scale in purchase of farm inputs; processing,

transportation and marketing of agricultural produce and facilitate

better access to credit from financial services.

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BRING VEGETABLE TO SCHOOL AND TRAINING

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