Meet Safia Madi, a 23-year-old Burkinabe refugee living in the border community of Sapeliga in the Upper East region of Ghana with her husband and three children.
This week marked a turning point for Safia and many women like her as they received vegetable-garden starter materials under NABOCADO’s CHILD Project, funded by Kindermissionswerk Die Sternsinger of Germany.
These materials will help Safia construct her own year-round home vegetable garden, ensuring consistent access to nutritious green leafy vegetables for her children, even during the harsh dry season.
Safia participated in earlier demonstration-garden training and is eager to replicate what she learned at home.
“Getting fresh vegetables during the dry season in this community is really difficult. This support will be very important for the food my children and I eat.” She says.
In all, 500 women of reproductive age in Sapeliga- Kaare, Sapeliga-Bugla, Nangodi- Kalin, Widnaba, Kansogo, Gentiga and Yarigungu in the Bawku West, Binduri and Nabdam districts of the Upper East Region have received poles, Fence Wires, Watering cans, vegetable seeds and sacks.
Through improved nutrition, caregiving, and strengthened health services, the CHILD Project is working to reduce childhood illnesses in seven Burkinabe refugee-host communities in the Upper East Region.
Originally posted on NABOCADO's Facebook and LinkedIn pages.