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Fish for the elderly and orphaned children

By Daniel Jamu - Project Leader, August 07, 2008 05:04 PM

As fish caught from natural lakes and streams have traditionally been an important part of the diet in landlocked Malawi, increasing population and declining catches reduced annual per capita fish consumption from 14 kilograms in the 1970s to 4.2 kilograms in 2005. Aquaculture has since been seen as an exit option to relieve pressure from dwindling capture fisheries and increase fish production and consumption. The project “Fish to feed HIV affected families in Malawi” implemented by WorldFish Center in collaboration with World Vision with funding through Global Giving in southern Malawi, helps HIV/AIDS affected and infected poor families including women to live a better life with nutritious food on the table and money in their pockets through appropriate adoption of Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture (IAA) technologies to the needs of the affected families. Over the past twelve months, the WorldFish Center, with the Global Giving Fund has made remarkable contribution to improving income and food security through the promotion of Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture (IAA) in primary schools. Nineteen (19) ponds have now been constructed and stocked with fish. One school, Samalani, enjoyed its first harvest in June with over 30kgs of fish harvested from a 300 square meter pond. All schools have now opened maize and vegetable fields that are being irrigated from the pond water. The optimism in reducing food and nutritional insecurity increased even more with the adaptation of the IAA technologies to improve incomes and nutritional status of the HIV- affected elderly and orphaned households.
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Progress report for GlobalGiving

By Daniel Jamu - Project leader, April 25, 2008 01:22 PM

Introduction

The GlobalGiving Funding project was initiated in Malawi, in Chingale area of Zomba District, in the year 2007. The overall goal of the project is to enable poor households, including women and HIV/AIDS affected and infected to live a better life with nutritious food on the table and money in their pockets. The first phase targeted primary schools with the idea to improve the educational achievements of children, in particular girls from poor and food-insecure families. Children from poor households often drop out from schools mainly because of hunger hence the introduction of school feeding programs. The project assists in constructing ponds, stock the ponds with fish and use the fish into the existing school feeding program; and with the income from sales of fish seed the schools can buy teaching and learning materials.

Following the success of the sensitization and planning meetings that were done in the first phase, the project had received an overwhelming positive response. The first four ponds (300m2 each) at Ntanangala Primary School have been a nucleus of knowledge by many surrounding schools. There are many study visits made to the school every school term. Three schools immediately after the rainy season (February) started their own ponds.

Please click the report below to read more about progress to date on the construction of new fish ponds
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