A truck-full of unwanted human waste will soon be turned into fuel.
Trucks bring the material to a social enterprise called Sanivation based in Naivasha,100 kilometres from Nairobi.
It might seem like an unlikely source for cooking meals and heating homes, but this unpleasant mixture will be treated and turned into profita ble briquettes.
“Initially, it was very hard for us to scale-up as we used to make a home based product. People used to think that it smelling a lot but that wasn’t the case because we used to treat the poop very well to make the product and people would even use it for barbecue,” explains Paul Manda, factory manager at Sanivation.
The raw material is treated through heating at high temperatures to kill the bacteria and then is mixed with sawdust to make the briquettes.
The product has become more popular than they expected.
“So, when we decided to think of another product we thought of the sawdust briquettes, and of course, it is also a combination of agricultural and of course human waste. This product (was) actually picked up the market much quicker than we thought. So, we are currently selling more than 120 tons and we cannot even meet the market demand,” says Manda.
Taking human waste out of the wider environment and turning it into fuel has environmental benefits.
According to charity Water.org,41 percent of Kenyans lack access to basic sanitation solutions.
According to dateafrom WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP), it is estimated 8.5 percent of the population practiced open defecation in 2020.
“The use of this fuel is very important to the environment in the fact that for each tonne that we are going to use we are saving thirty-three trees. Remember we are also taking a useless product that people used to just throw away, and maybe it was unsafely managed,” says Manda.
Sanivation initially targeted households as potential customers.
But after low takeup, they switched to supplying factories and businesses like Larmona flower farm.
They cook food on site for their employees and used to use charcoal and firewood.
But the briquettes are cheaper and manager Mary Wangui says her staff have noticed other benefits.
‘We switched to briquettes which are environmentally friendly because they do not produce smoke compared to the normal charcoal and the firewood. Also it has another advantage that it is not affecting our employees in the canteen medical-wise because the smoke affects the health of the employees but with briquettes we do not have those chances at the moment,” she explains.
“We have other advantages on the tear and wear of cooking pots whereby we used to buy cooking pots several times but at the moment they are taking long. Also if you compare from the normal charcoal and from briquettes, the heat from the briquettes takes long that means we use less compared to what we used to use there earlier,” she adds.
According to Kenya Forest Service, charcoal provides 82 percent of the urban population and 34 percent of rural households with energy.
“The briquettes are a good alternative to charcoal and wood and especially they are made from mostly waste material so they reduce on the trees that are being cut,” explains Nickson Otieno, a sustainability expert and CEO at Niko Green.
“Number two, if well made, they burn efficiently so they release less emissions of bad air, we call it carbon. So that has a very good health impact but also environmental impact compared to how the charcoal or the wood burns. Which is not efficient.”
Through the initiative, the company has been able to create jobs, as well as convince established organisations to opt for an environmentally friendly source of energy.
An Egyptian court has reduced to three years, the prison sentence of TikTok influencer, Haneen Hossam for “human trafficking”, a judicial source told AFP on Monday (April, 18 ).
The 20-year-old student was slapped with a ten-year prison sentence in absentia in June last year.
Her case returned to court under a routine process because she was no longer in absentia.
Her sentence, against which she can still appeal, has therefore been “reduced”, her lawyer Hussein al-Baqar told AFP, saying that with 21 months already spent behind bars, his client could “consider her new sentence as an acquittal”.
With the system of remissions, he explained, “she could get out this summer”.
Before that, she will have to pay a fine of almost 10,000 euros.
Ms Hossam was once suspected of pimping for a video sent to her more than 1.3 million subscribers in early 2020.
In it, she said she wanted to help young girls who could not find work to earn some money by posting online videos with her.
“The justice system is criminalizing what all influencers do every day: invite others to work with them to monetize their business on TikTok,” said lawyer Mai el-Sadany on Twitter.
In June 2020, another female influencer, Mawada al-Adham, was sentenced to six years in prison for “human trafficking” and “inciting debauchery”.
In all, over the past two years, a dozen female influencers have been arrested for indecency in the conservative country.
We were young, eager youths, mostly teenagers, crossing from secondary schools into the tertiary institutions. In fact some, like me, were leaving home for the first time. It was the tail end of 1978.
We were not just the first set of students to be admitted through the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, which made us ‘Jambites’ but also the pioneer students of the Dramatic Arts Department of the University of Ife, now Obafemi Awolowo University.
We gathered for our first lecture, excited to learn and feel what a university is like. Then bounced in a charming, smartly dressed man, our lecturer. He introduced himself as Yemi Ogunbiyi; although he looked young, we knew he already had a Ph.D from the United States safely tucked under his belt.
He asked the class who had read Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth? None. He asked who had read any book by Fanon. None. He seemed enraged, how can we be undergraduates in a Nigerian university and had not read Fanon? Well, he was not in Ife to teach toddlers. With that, he walked out.
We scrambled out of the class to search for copies of Fanon’s books in the bookshop, the library and begged older students.
By next class with Ogunbiyi, we had not only read, The Wretched of the Earth, but it had opened our eyes to the struggles of oppressed peoples; we were on our way to being big boys.
Ogunbiyi had some resemblance with Richard Roundtree, the central character in the hugely successful Shaft film series. So we nicknamed him ‘Shaft’.
We had fantastic lecturers like Femi Euba, Segun Akinbola; our Mama, Carol Dowes, Dr Kole Omotosho, Olu Akomolafe and the colourful Sunbo Marinho from Ibadan. However, for us, aside our famous Head of Department, Professor Wole Soyinka, Ogunbiyi was the star of the department; he was quite brilliant, articulate, patient and approachable.
He was like an uncle you could confide in. These put him in good stead when in 1981, the university was on the boil following the police murder of six students, including two from outside Ife.
The students were all for a bloody revenge, so the school authorities who were clearly losing control, approached Ogunbiyi to speak at the chaotic students rally, calm them down and if possible, persuade them to allow a peaceful closure of the institution.
We were so fully moulded in the Drama Department that other departments, like Literature, where we took elective courses, started seeing the drama boys and girls as coming to terrorise them as we took on lecturers and turned classes and tutorials into debating centres. When we went to the first Nigeria University Theatre Arts Festival held at the University of Ibadan, the lecturers complained to Professor Soyinka and Dr Ogunbiyi that though we were brilliant, but we were fearless and rude.
But things were not always smooth. In my third year, there were differences between the department and some student journals which attracted a lot of negative publicity for the former One morning Dr Ogunbiyi called me and said: “Owei, Prof wants a truce.” I asked him what that has got to do with me, and that he might be putting me in trouble.
He said he had told Prof Soyinka I could end the crisis. Cornered, I said feebly I was in no position to do so but could assist. “Do you know Dapo Sir?” “Olorunyomi?” “Yes Sir. He is in Room 247, Fajuyi. He can ensure the truce.”
On another occasion, somebody told me in confidence that Dr. Ogunbiyi was upset with me over a matter trending on campus. I had nothing to do with it, but I didn’t know whether he would believe me. So I went to his closest friend on campus, Dr Biodun Jeyifo, fondly called BJ, to say I was in trouble with Dr Ogunbiyi. He said: “If you are sure of what you are telling me, let’s go to Yemi.”
BJ barged into Ogunbiyi’s office and said: “Yemi, what is this thing about you and Owei?” He asked me to repeat what I told him. Ogunbiyi replied he had thought I was behind the controversy, but on second thoughts, concluded I was more intelligent than to engage in such nonsense.
In my final year, Ogunbiyi hinted the class that a new newspaper that would change the face of journalism in the country was in the offing. Since he had some of the brightest students in the country, he would want some of us on graduation to join the publication.
I thought nothing about it. But when in 1983, I completed the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, in Kano, I decided to remain with the Civil Service Technical Workers Union, CSTWUN, now Amalgamated Union which had offered me a job in Lagos.
By this time, the Guardian Newspapers had hit the streets as a weekly. While I waited for the union’s employment letter, I decided to visit Ogunbiyi at the newspapers where he was a director. He asked me if I was averse to working in the newspaper. I said no, and he asked me to return in two days.
When I did, I was asked to see the Managing Director, Dr. Stanley Macebuh. When I told him, I was from Ogunbiyi, he asked: “Are you Owei something?” I nodded and he said: “What hold do you have on Dr Ogunbiyi? He came to me two days ago and said there is somebody we must hire. That you are going to add value to the Guardian. What can you do for us?”
I told him I was a labour expert and well versed in the student movement. Macebuh sent me downstairs to meet Assistant Editor Lade Bonuola to be tested in Labour Reporting. Within months, I was one of the journalists being celebrated by the Guardian as the rising stars in journalism.
Within months I was elected Chairman of the Guardian Newspapers Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, and heading towards a confrontation with the management. Ogunbiyi, a very wise man who could see far, called to advise me on alternative grievance procedure at the work place. But I was past hearing and was soon sacked with 16 others. Despite this and my stubbornness, Ogunbiyi continued to watch over me like a mother hen.
In April 2019, the graduates of that 1982 UNIFE Dramatic Arts Department held its first reunion in Lagos. Our special guest of honour was Ogunbiyi. We were happy to receive a man who applied fertilizer to our intellectual roots. That I am today a veteran journalist and syndicated columnist is due to the engineering of Ogunbiyi. But I have never thanked him. I do so publicly now as he turned 75 on April 13.
South African authorities have found 6 more bodies amid ongoing rescue operations following devastating flooding in the country’s east coast.
KwaZulu-Natal Premier assured South Africans search missions were back in “full swing” despite having being impacted by extensive damage to the province.
“As of this morning, KwaZulu-Natal received 38 callouts and on the scenes that we attended, six bodies were recovered. We stand at approximately 63 persons missing or unaccounted for. That toll now stands at 443.”
“This morning, the Executive Council approved the provincial policy on government support funeral assistance to people who passed away as a result of flood disasters. Municipalities have policies to assist the needy and the indigent and are currently conducting profiling in line with these policies ” he said.
Floodwaters engulfed parts of the southeastern coastal city of Durban and surrounding areas early last week ripping apart roads, destroying hospitals and sweeping away homes and those trapped inside.
Survivors of the deadly floods in the rural town of Inanda, in eastern South Africa, sought divine solace observing Easter Sunday. Inanda, a rural township 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the city of Durban’s central business district, was one of the areas devastated by heavy flooding that has killed 443 people and left more than 40,000 homeless.
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Celestial City through the ministry of labour has embarked on a project that will see more youths in Malawi being equipped with technological skills.
Celestial City representative in Malawi Penjani Kalua, also known as Fredokiss submitted a technological skills memorandum to make sure that government has full knowledge to support the project.
Minister of labour Kamtukure receiving a proposal from Fredokiss
Celestial City is an initial song offering platform built on Web 3.0, which is the third generation of internet services for websites and applications that will focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and semantic web.
Headed by Former Vodacom Executive, Dr. Nkechi Newton, Celestial City has a roster of industry veterans including Global Creative Marketing Executive at Netflix, Tamara Johnson.
According to the proposal, the platform also plans on hosting concerts for major and independent artists globally, physically, and on the Metaverse.
Speaking after receiving the proposal from Celestial City Minister of Labour Vera Kamtukule said her ministry recognizes the potential of the creative sector in job creation as well as skills development. She is optimistic that many young people in the country will benefit from this project.
Kamtukule said that this proposal is in line with the job creation strategy that is focusing on the impact of the youth in achieving the respective objectives.
“The youth are an integral part in the building of a nation. As long as they have the skills and they are well trained you are assured of great things.
“This proposal I feel will enable youths to be employed remotely, thus providing labour compensation inflows in line with the government’s job creation strategy MIP 1 and MW2063”, she said.
On behalf of Celestial City, Penjani Kalua said he was happy that government through the ministry of Labour saw the importance of the proposal and accepted to partner with Celestial City.
“I am so excited that we have presented our proposal and it has been warmly received. I feel we all have a part to play, we need to be counted and be a light in the dark. I am looking forward to the implementation of this project and to see youths benefiting”, said Kalua.
HARARE-(MaraviPost)-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has fired High Court judge Thompson James Mabhikwa who was last year suspended after his girlfriend, Oratile Nare, who was then an assistant to a fellow Bulawayo judge, leaked his nudes and vulgar WhatsApp messages.
Nare, then assistant to Justice Maxwell Takuva, posted Mabhikwa’s nudes and dirty messages to all his contacts and judges’ group before they immediately went viral, forcing the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) to launch a probe before Mnangagwa appointed a tribunal chaired by retired judge Justice November Mtshiya which handed its report last week.
Zimbabwe High court judge Thompson James Mabhikwa fired
Now a magistrate in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province, Nare has since been suspended over a different matter.
In a letter dated 11 April 2022 addressed to Chief Justice Luke Malaba, Chief Secretary to the President and cabinet Misheck Sibanda advised that Mabhikwa’s removal from office of the High Court was with immediate effect.
“The Tribunal which was inquiring into the questions of removal from office of Honourable Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa in terms of 187 (3) of the Constitution has completed its work,” the letter to Malaba reads in part.
“The Tribunal has reported its findings to His Excellency, the President Cde ED Mnangagwa, and has recommended that Honourable Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa be removed from office of a Judge for acts of gross misconduct.”
“Accordingly, His Excellency the President, acting in terms of section 187 (8) of the Constitution, has removed the honourable Judge Justice Thompson James Mabhikwa from the office of with immediate effect,” Sibanda wrote.
Justice Mabhikwa, who was based at the Bulawayo High Court was accused of bedding a member of staff at the High Court, itself an act of misconduct.
It emerged that Justice Mabhikwa was having an intimate affair with Nare who, following a visit to his place, discovered raunchy messages with other women and nudes and, out of anger, posted them in all his contacts, including a work group.
In appointing the tribunal in June last year which was initially chaired by retired judge Justice Maphios Cheda, Mnangagwa said via a Statutory Instrument in the Government Gazette the panel should investigate whether Mabhikwa’s conduct could be deemed to have been tantamount to gross misconduct.
He also said the tribunal should investigate whether or not the judge committed acts of sexual harassment, possessed pornographic material and to investigate any other matter which the tribunal may deem appropriate and relevant to the question of removal from office of a judge in terms of the law.
LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Following the purchasing of an expensive vehicle for the current Chief Executive Officer Rhino Chiphiko, Parliamentary committee on Agriculture is expected to summon ADMARC officials to explain the source of income for the purchased vehicle.
Chiphiko no mercy on Admarc financial challenges
Chairperson for the Committee, Sammer Suleiman said this on Sunday, April 17, 2022 in an interview with The Maravi Post.
Suleiman said the committee will invite the Admarc officials soon to the committee meeting to find out the logic behind the move.
He said it is very sad for the corporation to behave that way at the time the institution is struggling financially.
Suleiman adds; “We don’t need such luxury while we are failing to pay salaries and even sustain our business. As a committee we have been fighting for Admarc to get extra funding from government in order to boost its business and to save it from collapsing.
“This is totally the opposite , we seriously lack political will and commitment for this institution”.
Agriculture Development Marketing Corporation (ADMARC) has been struggling to operate due to serious financial crisis and begged the Parliamentary committee to source funds for it’s operation.
The Equatorial Guinea-flagged oil tanker, Xelo, which sank Saturday in the Gulf of Gabes along Tunisia, has been checked with divers finding no leaks from fuel-laden ship.
The Tunisia branch of the World Wildlife Fund had also expressed concern about another environmental catastrophe” in the region, an important fishing zone.
The Xelo was travelling from Egypt to Malta when it went down.
Rabie El Majidi, Tunisian Minister of Transport said Sunday that rescue workers had checked during the operation that the valves were closed, and the team of divers ensured they were sealed and intact.
The crew of the Xelo had issued a distress call on Friday evening and sought shelter in Tunisian waters from bad weather before going down.
Tunisian authorities rescued the seven-member crew, who received first aid and were moved to a hotel.
An Italian ship specialised in cleaning up marine pollution will be sent alongside a team of divers to aid with efforts, an Italian official said.
Tunisian officials are also investigating the itinerary of the tanker, which reportedly has Turkish and Libyan owners.
BLANTYRE-(MaraviPost)-After two months without commenting on issues affecting the country, comedian-cum-Politician Bon Kalindo has now resurrected from his silence.
This time, Kalindo is advancing on Anti-Corruption Bureau ( ACB) Director General Martha Chizuma’s leaked audio who he wants to be fired from the position.
Kalindo wants Martha Chizuma out of ACB
He has therefore, given Chakwera seven-day -ultimatum to remove Chizuma over the issue.
Kalindo says if Chakwera fails to fire Chizuma within the period, he will organize nationwide demonstrations.
He said this on Sunday April 17, 2022 to the press as he was called to confirm an audio clip in circulation on social media, in which he is accusing Chakwera and Vice-President Saulos Chilima of failing to uphold rule of law, especially on the issue of the ACB Director whose leaked audio has been sanctioned to be under investigation by court.
“Some people think when we do this, we are against the ACB Director’s quest to fight corruption but no, this issue in not about corruption, this is about integrity and violation of the oath of secrecy, ” said Kalindo.
Adding “Chizuma is not untouchable, she is there to protect the law and if the court has given a go ahead for investigations into the audio to commence then if she is a person of integrity she must step down.”
Kalindo in a follow up interview some months ago, emphasized that people must not twist the issue to say Chizuma is being targeted but that there is need to look at the integrity of the holder of her office.
The Mzuzu Senior Resident Magistrate’s Court on April 7, 2022 ordered the Malawi Police Service and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to investigate a leaked audio involving Chizuma.
This came after an application by Mzuzu resident Frighton Phombo in which he asked the court to open a case against Chizuma on allegations that she violated the Corrupt Practices Act (CPA) by revealing to a third party information on a case the bureau was investigating.
But in his comment, political analyst Wonderful Mkhutche says Kalindo has followed a wrong way of pushing the matter.
He says there is a need for proof that Chizuma is indeed compromised beyond the audio clip that circulated .
“That issue was already addressed and if there is any case against her, it has to be something else. Chizuma still enjoys and this attempt to threatens her may not be successful,” he says
Mkutche agrees corruption in Malawi has so many faces and that there are many underlying forces in fighting against it.
He urges that those who are concerned must be on guard.
By Raphael Mweninguwe (Malawi), Justina Asishana (Nigeria) and Srishti Jaswal (India)
Faith Bikiyere, 6, was admitted to the Nutrition Rehabilitation Unit (NRU) at Mitundu Health Centre in Lilongwe, suffering from stunting, or low weight for height and her mother, Daina Bikiyere, 24, is also undernourished.
Daina says the doctors told her that their conditions are a result of poor diet. Diana explains she followed the advice of some women in her community and her family who told her not to eat certain foods such as okra, catfish, pork, eggs, milk and bananas.
Nigeria_A mother weighing her baby at Tunga PHC ion Nigeria
“And when the child was born”, she says, “she was underweight but I was advised by some people not to breastfeed her or give her certain dietary foods.”
This advice is a far cry from UNICEF’s recommendation to breastfeed exclusively for up to six months.
About 3800 kilometres away, in Nigeria, three-year-old Hamisu Garba looks like a one-year-old child as he suffers from wasting (low weight for height). His mother, Ladidi Garba, explained that Hamisu was 16 months old and near death when he was admitted in February to the Severe Acute Malnutrition (SAM) Center at the General Hospital in Minna, Niger State.
“I never knew that the food I was told not to give to him, which included eggs and milk, were the ones affecting him”, she said.
Food taboos, based on cultural and religious beliefs, are impacting negatively on the health of pregnant women and children.
Studies have shown that pregnant women and children often suffer malnutrition because these beliefs prevent them from eating nutritious foods packed with vitamins and proteins. Poor weaning practices further compound the problem
Statistics show that 37.1% of children under five years are stunted in Malawi, 32% in Nigeria and 35.5% in India.
According to UNICEF, nearly half of all deaths in children under 5 are attributable to undernutrition; undernutrition puts children at greater risk of dying from common infections, increases the frequency and severity of such infections, and delays recovery.
UNICEF further states that although stunting has declined steadily since 2000, faster progress is needed to reach the 2030 target while wasting persists at alarming rates and overweight will require a reversal in trajectory if the 2030 target is to be achieved.
Food Taboo as a Religious and Cultural Belief
Food taboos are not only limited to Malawi or Nigeria but are quite common in other African and Asia countries, like India.
In India, Hindus consider a cow a holy animal. Eating beef, as well as drinking clarified butter, milk and other dairy products are taboos. Upper caste Hindus, believe that eating onions and garlic leads to unholy behaviour.
A practising Muslim considers it taboo to eat pork. In Malawi, among the Zion City Church, Zion Christian Church and Apostolic Church, eating pork, catfish, seafood, rabbit and duck are taboos.
Chancy Lutere, a leader of Zion Christian Church, says eating such foods is against their religious beliefs pointing out that both the Bible and the Koran are very clear about what kind of food to eat.
Religious leaders argue that there are alternative foods that can be consumed to supplement the dietary needs of a person.
In Minna, Nigeria, Ladidi says that within her community, exclusive breastfeeding is culturally not encouraged. Giving children eggs, milk, tea and sometimes meat is believed to impact negatively on their lives.
“When I gave birth to my son, I was told not to do exclusive breastfeeding with him. In Magama, we do not give our children eggs because we believe that eating eggs will turn them into thieves and everyone wants their children to do well. I did it because I felt it was the best for them,” Ladidi explains.
A 2019 study among teen mothers in Malawi showed correlations “between dietary diversity and improved pregnancy outcomes including a protective effect against low birth weight”.
A study published in 2021 in India concerning the gaps and barriers in maternal diets found that between 62-82% of Indian mothers believe that various fruits, vegetables along with meat, fish and eggs should not be consumed during pregnancy because these are head-producing in nature and consequently lead to miscarriage and fetal malformations.
In Nigeria, a research, “Food taboos and myths in South-Eastern Nigeria: “The belief and practice of mothers in the region” published in 2016 by Uchenna Ekwochi et al, points out that food taboos contribute to unhealthy nutritional practices during pregnancy and early childhood are detrimental to the child’s growth and development.
The study showed that two in every ten pregnant women in South-East Nigeria avoid eggs, snails and bush meat during their pregnancy which most of them began eating after they give birth.
At the SAM Center in Minna, 15 cases of malnutrition are reported each month among women and children under five years.
Aisha Abdullahi, a health worker at SAM Center, explains that some of the patients brought to the centre are often weak and sometimes do not willingly go along with the meal plan provided However, they follow the plan when told they will die if they don’t follow a recommended dietary plan.
Children like Hamisu and Faith show improvement after a few weeks on the recommended diets.
The staff interviewed say lack of education and ignorance coupled with poverty and cultural beliefs are the driving force of malnutrition.
Impact of food taboos on the health of mothers and children
Dr Mary Shawa, a Nutritionist in Malawi says non-consumption of foods high in nutrients coupled with the belief that having a reduced meal frequency “will help to have a smaller baby who will be easier to deliver” is causing malnutrition.
She says children who are restricted from taking foods such as eggs, fish, pork, and beef result in protein-calorie malnutrition, maternal depletion, premature ageing, and general malnutrition in women.
Hajiya Asmau Mohammed, the Niger State Nutrition Officer, noted that the state has lots of farming and food, “but misconceptions and taboos prevent people from getting optimal nutrition.”
Finding solutions
An innovation of setting up Kitchen Corners at the Hospitals and Primary Healthcare Centers across the Niger State in Nigeria are helping to end malnutrition where women are taught how to prepare different kinds of nutritious foods.
Having vegetable gardens in one’s backyard is also part of the solution. And some experts have proposed 8 antenatal visits for pregnant women to have additional nutrition education.
Outreach programmes on community radio stations in Malawi such as Ulyelo Wamapha translated as ‘Good Eating’ on Chirundu Community Radio Station provide listeners with nutrition knowledge. The content is developed by the Malawi government as part of its nutrition insecurity interventions.
Another programme, ‘Foundation for Good Health’ on Madziko Community Radio gives farmers an opportunity to discuss issues about nutrition, health and sanitation. Each radio station has its program on nutrition which helps farmers get educated on eating a good diet.
Studies indicate that several pregnant women and children are dying of malnutrition because of the beliefs that restrict them from eating certain kinds of foods which are nutritious and full of vitamins and proteins.
But such religious and cultural beliefs could be overcome by giving education to pregnant women and lactating mothers during antenatal and postnatal care.
This is why Mohammed stated that increased sensitization is key in changing perceptions of food taboos just as she pointed out that while cultures and traditions are respected, alternatives to the food taboos can be presented to the communities which would improve the nutritional status of women and children and gradually make them embrace the food they are rejecting.
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This work was supported by a Global Nutrition and Food Security Reporting Fellowship from the International Center for Journalists and the Eleanor Crook Foundation.
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