The Isabella Ayuk Foundation (IAF) believes that Good Nutrition is part of Good Health. Hence, the commitment to provide quality food and supplements lies at the epicenter of actions by the foundation to ensure that good nourishment, the type that really counts, reaches the indigent members of the nation’s poor communities
Nigeria is Africa’s most populous nation, and home to some of the continent’s poorest peoples, with many living below the breadline. This hard fact means that many households can only get by with very little to fill their stomachs, while several go without. Sadly, where there are many mouths to feed and little food to go round, the focus shifts from quality to quantity, and typically, nutrition suffers, and sickness is the aftermath (especially for women and children).
According to Global Nutrition Report, Nigeria’s efforts to meet its target for maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) has seen little or no progress in reducing anemia among women of reproductive age, with 55.1% of women aged 15 to 49 years now affected.
Latest statistics from UNICEF indicates that Nigeria has the second highest burden of stunted children in the world, with a national prevalence rate of 32 percent of children under five. Also, an estimated 2 million children in Nigeria suffer from severe acute malnutrition (SAM), but only two out of every 10 children affected have access to treatment. The organisation also says that seven percent of Nigerian women of childbearing age suffer from acute malnutrition
These are frightening figures, and all hands must return to deck to row through these troubled waters.
And in line with this mission to bring nutrition back to the diner tables, The Isabella Ayuk Foundation (IAF) has carried out periodic distribution of foodstuff and supplements to over 5000 women across many households in Cross River, Nassarawa, Ebonyi and Akwa Ibom states, including Abuja, the capital territory
