Thank you for your generous support!
Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is essential to ensure the growth, health, and development of children to their full potential. Therefore, enormous thanks to all of you who didn’t stay indifferent to our cause. Together we have succeeded in raising $312.30 for the campaign aiming at providing nutritious food to vulnerable teenage moms and their babies.
Despite some administrative challenges in pushing the project forward, we have recently managed to make some real progress and use the funds we have raised together for providing in-kind nutritional support to poor Roma families in the greatest need. Due to the high number of young pregnant women and infants living in severe poverty, our teams applied a list of vulnerability criteria in order to select the most at-risk economically disadvantaged families which would receive the food support.
Two weeks ago, we purchased and prepared individual packages containing baby food for infants up to 12 months and essential products such as rice, beans, lentils, flour and sunflower oil for toddlers and pregnant women. The selected 10 families are part of our home-visiting project Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP). The NFP home-visitors (nurses and midwives) provide support, care and new knowledge to young mothers living in poverty.
You can see here some of the pictures our team of nurses has made when delivering the food packages. They show how much joy and happiness your contribution has brought to the families and how important your help is.
In addition to what was already done, we continue our efforts in subsidizing the cost of warm baby food and partnering with local kitchens to provide moms and their children with healthy food on a daily basis. We hope the campaign will continue to inspire and excite you so that with your valuable help we can reach the project’s goal and meet the nutrition needs of 70 teenage moms and their infants.
Thank you again for backing our cause.