Food Distribution in Anakarana region

Southern Madagascar is currently experiencing extreme food shortages and rising prices. Following months of closed borders and restrictions on travel and trade, food insecurity is growing across the Island with the situation in the south now critical. This, coupled with seasonal drought and cyclical lean seasons before crops can be harvested means half the region’s population,  are now not able to find enough food to eat. The number of people affected is three times the number projected mid-year, with women and children comprising most of those experiencing “crisis” or “emergency” hunger conditions.

As hunger numbers rise, so do the proportion of families who are resorting to crisis-coping mechanisms. Reports are now circulating in National and International media of people being forced to eat bugs or clay, and Little Angels foundation  staff have reported that those in rural communities are resorting to eating plants that unless soaked for days are poisonous.

 Little Angels Foundation Emmergency  Food Distribution Programme

Little angels foundation Emergency Food Distribution Programme is working to alleviate the severe food crises in the

Anakaranana region of Madagascar. Little Angels Foundation is working as part of Madagascar’s

community response to food insecurity, in collaboration with the nutrition cluster

local health centres to provide a community-centred approach to food distribution. With the goal of

improving the health and longer-term resilience of food insecure communities in southeast Madagascar,

Little angels foundation approach is multi-faceted. Children diagnosed with moderate or severe acute malnutrition are

given ready-to-use therapeutic food for every 10 days. Additionally, the families of these children

are provided with unprepared staple food stocks every 25 days, including rice, beans, and oil.

To ensure longer term positive impacts, Little angels foundation provides education sessions around nutrition and water,

sanitation, and hygiene  and distributes hand soap following these sessions. To further equip

communities with information to improve their longer-term health and resilience, trained community

health workers will conduct household visits with women and girls to mobilise information about family

planning services offered at their local health centre. Empowering communities with knowledge on

good hygiene, nutrition, and family planning practices helps ensure improved living conditions for

beneficiaries even after programming has finished

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