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Turkana Feeding Program - Northern Kenya
Since 2006, Samaritan's Purse has been working to reduce deaths due to malnutrition among children and pregnant and nursing women. Twenty nine feeding centers in northern Kenya's drought-stricken Turkana district have been established and special high-nutrition food has been provided to malnourished infants and children. Through this feeding program, God has made a way for evangelistic outreach to people who know little or nothing about the Gospel. Many of them have come to faith in Jesus Christ, giving up their traditional African religions, and are now involved in local churches. One village chief said, “The mothers of the children are thanking God for this program.”
Women of the Turkana people listen to a bible study outside the feeding site. |
A staff member provides special health and nutrition training to women before they receive nutritional food items. |
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The diameter of arms are measured to determine whether the child needs special nutrition. |
Staff measure the weight and height of each child to keep track of their progress and to determine their nutritional needs. |
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Plumpy’nut, a high-nutrition peanut-based paste, is given to children who have been determined as malnourished. |
Special vitamins and medicine is given to malnourished children. |
A Turkana man waits outside the feeding program in the arid lands of northern Kenya. |
Women and children of the Turkana tribe wait in line for bags of high-nutrition corn soy blend (CSB). |
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A special corn soy blend (CSB) is mixed with oil to provide a high-nutrition food source. |
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