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Conquer Malnutrition 🥜🍚 jennieschwartz Take a moment and imagine. Aside from your daily struggles, your baby is wasting away, and you don’t even know why! First, you spend what little money you have on a short hospital stay. Your child was treated for malaria, and then you are told it’s time to be discharged from the hospital. You look at your baby, and she doesn’t even have the strength to hold her head up. The nurse hands you a paper that you may or may not be able to read, and then she refers you to a feeding clinic. The following day you borrow money for transportation so you can take your baby and pick up food at the feeding clinic. You arrive only to be told NO SUPPLY HERE. WHAT IS A MOTHER TO DO? Cry4humanity wants to partner with you and open a food and education center! A facility that every needy mother and child can rely on. A place that empowers women through health education and provides children with the food necessary to recover fully from malnutrition. Mothers will learn the cause of malnutrition and how to prevent it from reoccurring. The site for the center is located in the Mabanta Village. It will be the first and only facility of its kind in the area. The nearest feeding clinic is five miles away and rarely has therapeutic food to give to patients.   The following is a list of some of the programs that will be offered to our clients. PREP AND LEARN- Instruct mothers how to prepare adequate food for their malnourished child. As a group, mothers will learn which foods to use, how to prepare them, and how to feed them to their child safely. All training will be hands-on! The prepared food will go home with the mother, and she will feed it to her child. Each patient will be asked to return on a specific date. Progress will be monitored, and the process will repeat until the child has recovered completely! Prenatal Education Classes-  Promote the maintenance of healthy lifestyles during pregnancy, learn the importance of long term breastfeeding, helping expectant mothers manage stress, support a nutritious diet, avoid harmful chemicals and situations, recognize warning signs and symptoms that mean something may be wrong with their pregnancy, and prepare for labor and delivery. Breastfeeding Support- A group where breastfeeding women can come together and encourage one another to continue breastfeeding their child until 12 months of age.  Incentives (food, cloth, baby items, etc.) will be given to women as they reach their goals!!! Possibilities are endless- As God provides, the amount and type of support offered will expand.