As part of the AKF Enhancing Food Security and Incomes (FSI) initiative in Cabo Delgado - the northernmost and poorest province of Mozambique where one out of two children suffer from stunting - mothers learn how to prepare enriched porridge to ensure good nutrition for their children.
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
As part of the AKF Enhancing Food Security and Incomes (FSI) initiative in Cabo Delgado - the northernmost an...
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Mieze, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Mieze, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
Teresa (left), a youth peer mentor, leads a class on family planning options at the Namuno Health Centre in Mozambique.
AKFC / Rich Townsend
Teresa (left), a youth peer mentor, leads a class on family planning options at the Namuno Health Centre in Mo...
AKFC / Rich Townsend
These mothers in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (where one out of every two children suffer from stunting) are learning how to prepare enriched porridge to ensure good nutrition for their children.
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
These mothers in Cabo Delgado, Mozambique (where one out of every two children suffer from stunting) are learn...
AKDN / Lucas Cuervo Moura
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In the province of Cabo Delgado, northern Mozambique, over half of children under age five are stunted due to malnutrition. Almost half of girls get married before the age of 18, increasing the rate of adolescent pregnancy and maternal and child mortality rates. AKF’s programmes in Cabo Delgado aim to improve the health and nutrition of the province’s people.
2,200
AKF supports 2,200 health workers and volunteers in Mozambique
Maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) in Mieze, Cabo Delgado, Mozambique.
AKF is working with communities for long-lasting changes in sexual and reproductive health, nutrition and gender-based behaviour and practices, especially amongst women and adolescent girls and boys.
We are improving the technical capacities of health professionals at the subnational and district level to deliver gender-responsive and inclusive health services, supporting 1,600 health workers and volunteers in 2020. Since 2013, we have trained more than 3,740 community health workers to reach approximately 201,000 beneficiaries in 222 villages. Of these, 108,900 are women or children under five.
We raise awareness of good health and nutrition practices, de-stigmatise these issues and improve access to enhanced screening and treatment services for rural populations. In 2020, we gave 16,900 children, adolescents and pregnant women nutritional screening and counselling.
We deliver AIDS awareness education through village and women’s organisations, and vaccination campaigns. We are also helping to combat COVID-19 in the province, supplying equipment and materials.