End Infant and Child Malnutrition in Guatemala

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Summary

The World Food Program (WFP) works alongside the Guatemalan government to provide food to rural areas where almost half of children under five suffer from chronic malnutrition.

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	$24 - Feed and educate a young girl for six months
	$36 - Provide food and healthy conditions to a child for an entire school year
	$92 - Provide nutrition for a pregnant or breastfeeding mother
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

The World Food Program will assist 373,000 children and lactating and pregnant women in Guatemala's most vulnerable regions over a span of three years. Due to enormous social disparities, extreme poverty mainly affects the indigenous population living in environmentally deteriorated rural areas. WFP specifically targets expecting mothers to ensure the proper nutrition of infants and children and to ultimately break the vicious cycle of poverty and underdevelopment.

Activities

This project addresses the underlying causes of chronic malnutrition in infants and children, including the limited access to adequate amounts of food. The program helps improve health practices by both nourishing and educating expecting mothers.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $144
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $28,256
Total Funding Goal: $28,400

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.friendsofwfp.org)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The operation aims to improve basic social and productive infrastructure by preventing child malnutrition and providing proper nutrition to expecting mothers in the target areas.

Project Message

Food, nutrition and health are basic human rights, without which there is little likelihood of total inclusion in society.
- Pedro Medrano Rojas, WFP Regional Director for Latin America

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Meredith Slater,
Development Assistant, Friends of the WFP
1819 L Street, NW Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202-530-1694
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Project Sponsor

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Organization

Friends of the World Food Program
1819 L St. NW, Suite 900
Washington, DC 20036
United States
202.530.1694
http://www.friendsofwfp.org

Learn more about Friends of the World Food Program and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on March 08, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on March 08, 2008.

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