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(Ecclesia Digital) Cáritas Española supports in Eritrea two projects to combat drought and maternal and child health

Posted by: Semere Asmelash

Date: Saturday, 17 March 2018

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Cáritas Española supports in Eritrea two projects to combat drought and maternal and child health

Saturday, March 17, 2018 Editor


Cáritas Española supports in Eritrea two projects to combat drought and maternal and child health

Aids worth 209,000 euros are approved to alleviate the effects of a prolonged crisis caused by the lack of rain

Cáritas Española has decided to approve each of 150,000 and 59,000 euros (209,000 euros in total) to finance two humanitarian aid projects in Eritrea, one of the countries in the world with the highest poverty rates. The actions will focus, on the one hand, on alleviating the effects of the severe food crisis caused by recurrent droughts in the country and, on the other, improving the precarious maternal and child health of rural communities.

Fight against drought

The project to fight against the effects of the drought - an intervention that has the financial collaboration of the British Caritas (CAFOD) and that will be put into practice by the Catholic Secretariat of Eritrea - has been developing since October 2017 and is scheduled to last of three years. Its actions are focused on covering the short, medium and long term needs of the communities most affected by the drought.

To this project, Cáritas Española will contribute 150,000 euros.

During this first year, actions will be taken to alleviate the most immediate needs for food, healthcare and access to appropriate water and sanitation services. Over the next two years, activities will focus on improving the livelihoods of families and strengthening the resilience of communities to cope with the impacts of drought.

This program will be carried out in the 4 dioceses of the country, in 6 administrative districts or "zobas" and will directly benefit more than 230,000 people.

Most of the activities will be carried out directly with the families themselves, especially with those who are in a situation of greater food insecurity, located in areas with high environmental degradation and with members in a situation of special vulnerability due to a disability, illness , malnutrition, widowhood, old age and other special situations.

Malnutrition and maternal and child health

The project to improve maternal and child health in the rural communities of Eritrea is an action that the Congregation of the Daughters of Santa Ana has been developing in Eritrea for years. These sisters work especially in the treatment of child malnutrition and the accompaniment of women to strengthen their knowledge and habits of health and hygiene.

Cáritas Española has been supporting the training program for young mothers of this congregation since 2010 and the child nutrition program since 2014. By 2018 both programs are included in a single intervention, given that they are complementary activities that are implemented from the same health centers in which the Sisters work throughout the country.

In this new phase of the program, to which Cáritas Española contributes a fund of 59,000 euros, 80 children under the age of 5 will be treated, all of them in a state of severe acute malnutrition, who will be provided with an integral treatment and follow-up of each case, while mothers will be initiated on hygiene and nutrition guidelines.

Along with this, a training program for 360 young mothers will be taught through 3 workshops in which different topics of health-maternal-child and issues such as risks of sexually transmitted diseases, perinatal problems, feeding will be discussed in depth. child care, hygiene habits and prevention of rheumatic heart disease.

Eritrea is located in one of the driest areas of the Horn of Africa, a region very prone to recurrent droughts to which serious problems of political instability are added. Droughts affect 80% of the country's population, whose livelihoods depend on self-consumption agriculture and pastoralism. On average, the country suffers drought every three years, although the rains are increasingly erratic and unpredictable, and even in years of good rains about half of the food has to be imported.

The UNDP 2016 index ranked Eritrea ranked 179 out of 188. This African country remains one of the least developed countries in the world, with an annual per capita income of $ 1,490.

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