Laying eggs and harvesting health

Mama Salima is a single mother with five young children. She is incredibly hardworking and committed to taking care of her family, but she struggles with HIV, limited access to land and poverty.

Gardens for Health and a local health center connected Mama Salima to a malnutrition program. Mama Salima had previously brought her children in for malnutrition and food aid, and while short term aid helped in the immediate term, her children kept losing weight when they returned home.

There was no long term solution that would allow the family to invest in the health by growing their own food. As part of Gardens for Health partnership with Mama Salima’s family, GHI has provided seeds and tree seedlings for her home garden, education in nutrition, health, agriculture and savings, and just recently, two chickens. After a couple of weeks, Mama Salima and her family have already harvested 28 eggs.  While the path to good health doesn’t come from eating one egg, Mama Salima and her family are eating better, eating more, and more importantly doing it themselves.

Thanks to Cait K, Dean and Julie B, Lee O and Leo B, Mama Salima is now equipped with the resources and knowledge for greater self-sufficiency. Thank you all so much for helping invest in Mama Salima and her family’s health!