Regional Child Fund Meeting in the Toubacouta Region

The meeting with the Supervisor of PRN (Projet Renforcement de la Nutrition) on December 19^th coincided with their regional meeting with the rural community of Toubacouta. The ASCs, ICPs, relais, MbaDioghok, matrones, midwives, and Presidents of committees and other representatives of several communities attended the meeting. Child Fund’s purposes were to report and provide commentaries on the malnutrition results and the number of children who were screened for the campaign in these communities.

 

The campaign is called “The Cellule Lutte contre la Malnutrition: Programme de Renforcement de la Nutrition". Thirty-one villages mobilized for the campaign against malnutrition in the rural community of Toubacouta were: Missirah Ngadioc, Sandicoly, Missirah, Ndoffong, Ndiambang, Badoudou, Ndioffene Limane, Bandiagara, Boutilimite, Saroudia, Dassalami Soce, Taiba, Keur Sambel, Sangak Medina Sangala, Sooucouta, Dagadiaodine, Santhie El, Aidara, Bosingcang, Bententi, Toubacouta, Bary, Touba Nding, Koeurl Soce, Dielmon, Nemanding, Nemabah, Santamba, Ndoumboudji, Koeur Alou Gueye.

About 100 health authorities attended the meeting in Toubacouta. I took the opportunity to know more information on Child Fund to judge where they could bring their knowledge in my community in terms of training, community outreach, and monitoring and evaluation of malnourished children. Mr. Sall was an amazing resource in discussing the role of Child Fund and their specific duties the programs they monitor including Programme ASBEF, Projet CAMA and PRN.

I met the entire team of Child Fund who intervenes in Sokone. We received two weight scales from them on December 20^th. I met Mr. Gueye, le charge de Programme Nutrition a Toubacouta, Foundiougne, Passy, et Sokone pour Child Fund. During the meeting, I also had the chance to meet le responsable de zone de Sokone, Mr. Backe and Mr. Cheikh Faty, the Vice President of the rural community of Toubacouta and Gibril Diouf, the President of the Health Commission of the rural community of Toubacouta.

 

About 264 children were screened for the campaign 2013-2014 in Dassalami Soce, Saroudia and Boutilimite. The results are presented in the tables in the Campaign against Malnutrition post. Malnutrition is rampant in my community during the cold season. I think it would be an interesting project to track the number of malnourished children in each season period per year and compare the data to see if there is an increase or decrease in malnutrition rates.

 

This way the data results provide a roadmap of the salient times for the prevalence of malnutrition. As a result, this is a better use of our time and effort in delivering nutrition health causeries. I am looking forward to developing a new partnership with the Child Fund Team.