Malnourished children receive food aid

Winneba (C/R), July 22, GNA- Seven hundred and fifteen (715) malnourished children in 58 communities in the Central Region have received food aid from the Adventist Relief and Development Agency (ADRA) Ghana, to help improve their health.

The communities, selected from five districts in the region include, Abubonko, Donkorkrom and Dehia in the Cape Coast Municipality, Nadwin, Breasi, Egyeikrom and Abee in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abream (KEEA) Mampong, Nsanfo, Dunkwa and Brofoyedru in the Mfantseman District. The others are Gomoa Simbrofo, Gomoa Ajumako, Gomoa Ogun and Gomoa Osedze in the Gomoa district, Senya Beraku and Ateitu in the Awutu-Effutu-Senya district.

Mr. Evans Lartey, Winneba area project officer of the ADRA said this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency at Winneba after he had led some staff of ADRA to distribute wheat to the beneficiary children in the Gomoa district.

He said the beneficiary districts are within the Agency's Operational Areas in the Central Region where it has already assisted some farmers to establish farms and woodlots to improve their living standards and the environment.

The children were between the ages of 6 months to five years. He said under the first phase, which started in January till July this year, each child was given two bags of highly nutritious wheat, and that the second phase would begin soon to complete the programme by the end of the year.

The Project Officer appealed to the people to continue using the leaves of the Moringa Plant supplied by the ADRA in their meals because it's highly nutritious and medicinal. 22 July 07