This direct feeding program targets 2,500 poor families (nearly 15,000 individuals), through hospitals, clinics, health centers, dispensaries and other health facilities. Recipients are mainly HIV/AIDS sufferers and their families, poor mothers and children 12 years of age. Most of the children helped are affected by malnutrition, diarrhea and malaria. Many of the proposed facilities are privately operated and receive no money from the government. Indeed, the government’s resources have been exhausted in the recent civil conflict.
Implementing an IFRP program, which distributes 4,000,000 nutritious meals through hospitals, clinics, health centers, dispensaries and other health facilities, in conjunction with its local partner Caritas, IPHD addresses the very serious CAR food security problems in the following ways:
Provide an immediate nutritional, shelf-stable food resource to the most vulnerable populations through a reliable distribution strategy, which will help address malnutrition and assist HIV/AIDS victims and their families.
Allow health institutions to provide food assistance to those most in need and thereby expand their client base.
Provide sufficient quantity/variety of food to periodically supplement local meals or in many cases provide food at mealtime when there would not otherwise be food available for targeted beneficiaries, thereby conserving the financial resources of CAR’s most poor, especially HIV/AIDS affected families.
