GEESI Development and Humanitarian Initiative

After the seminar on nutrition, a nutrition education campaign was launched through various platforms, which include refugee settlement and their host community and health clinics. This campaign aimed to disseminate accurate and evidence based information about nutrition to a wider audience. Nutritional assessments were conducted in collaboration with healthcare professional also to identity individuals at risk of malnutrition or specific nutritional deficiencies, the activities conducted in the field of nutrition proved to be successful in promoting awareness about healthy eating habits, providing nutrition education, and addressing nutritional issues in the community. we continued to educate participants in our various focused groups on topics such as understanding food labels, healthy meal planning, and portion control. The creation of awareness through educative talks included refugees at the settlement and host community members. Nutritional assessments were still conducted in collaboration with healthcare professionals and volunteers also to identity individuals at risk of malnutrition or specific nutritional deficiencies. After the educative talk, we distributed food materials to forcibly displaced persons that are in the refugee settlements and also to members of the host communities. The distribution covered; Malnourished children, Breastfeeding mothers and pregnant women.