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Operation Hunger
Operation Hunger
Operation Hunger
An integrated development programme is used throughout the country to combat the inter-related problems associated with long-term malnutrition and it is designed to address
nutritionally-insecure households in their efforts to combat chronic and acute malnutrition.
Currently, Operation Hunger is involved in implementing diverse projects in five of the nine provinces. These projects concentrate on developing skills with which people can control their own livelihoods. Because diseases such as AIDS and TB have devastating consequences for poverty and malnutrition, Operation Hunger provides a number of training and support programmes for communities related to these conditions.
The communities in which Operation Hunger works are usually situated in deeply rural areas or sprawling informal settlements with little or no services, very few resources and minimal health care. In addition, Operation Hunger has found that knowledge about the disease, and the way in which it is contracted, is very often non-existent and that people who have developed full-blown AIDS are not being properly taken care of. Again, because of the nature of the communities in which Operation Hunger works, there are very few programmes dealing with AIDS available to them – Operation Hunger seeks to fill this gap.
In short, the objectives of the organisation are to:
improve the nutritional well-being of the poor
promote the dissemination of knowledge about poverty and malnutrition in South Africa
improve existing facilities to reduce malnutrition in South Africa
promote the capacity of communities to reduce malnutrition in South Africa and to render financial assistance to develop such programmes
cooperate with communities, organisations and authorities to combat malnutrition generally.
Currently, Operation Hunger is involved in implementing diverse projects in five of the nine provinces. These projects concentrate on developing skills with which people can control their own livelihoods. Because diseases such as AIDS and TB have devastating consequences for poverty and malnutrition, Operation Hunger provides a number of training and support programmes for communities related to these conditions.
The communities in which Operation Hunger works are usually situated in deeply rural areas or sprawling informal settlements with little or no services, very few resources and minimal health care. In addition, Operation Hunger has found that knowledge about the disease, and the way in which it is contracted, is very often non-existent and that people who have developed full-blown AIDS are not being properly taken care of. Again, because of the nature of the communities in which Operation Hunger works, there are very few programmes dealing with AIDS available to them – Operation Hunger seeks to fill this gap.
In short, the objectives of the organisation are to:
improve the nutritional well-being of the poor
promote the dissemination of knowledge about poverty and malnutrition in South Africa
improve existing facilities to reduce malnutrition in South Africa
promote the capacity of communities to reduce malnutrition in South Africa and to render financial assistance to develop such programmes
cooperate with communities, organisations and authorities to combat malnutrition generally.
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