Our activities and the Covid

Covid 19 has worsened this situation, placing the country among those with an “alarming risk” of hunger, so we are no longer talking about malnutrition but about hunger. It is news in recent weeks that in the south of Madagascar dozens of children die of hunger every day.

The region in which Change is working is certainly in a better situation, also thanks to the constant screening of children, especially those under 5, and to the continuous support with dietary supplements that are regularly distributed in addition to medical-pediatric checks in the various villages.

Change follows and monitors as many as 15 villages that include 89 hamlets (called Hameau) and which are visited on a rotating basis by our 6 nutritional agents, who reach them by car or motorcycle and sometimes on foot if the rainy season prevents the use of means of transport. Since the beginning of the pandemic, with the lockdown, our business has necessarily had to slow down. We have reduced the number of villages visited and the number of children followed has decreased.

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The positive fact, however, is that cases of malnutrition have not increased, also thanks to the periodic distribution of food supplements that, despite the lockdown, we have guaranteed.

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