USAID has established a three-part program in Somalia. Ms. Lindborg describes how the program works.
NANCY LINDBORG: “We’re working on a three part approach to meeting the needs of those in the famine areas. The first is getting in food wherever we can. In particular, those therapeutic foods that are easily digestible by young children who are suffering from malnutrition.”
BARBARA KLEIN: The foods are two powdered milk products, called F-seventy-five and F-one hundred, and a peanut-based food called Plumpy'nut. They are given to starving children because they provide more nutrients and are easy for the body to process.
Nancy Lindborg describes the second part of the program.
NANCY LINDBORG: “We are working very hard on supporting health programs, public health programs. We are very concerned with the coming rains, that there will be additional diseases that are a result of these wetter conditions. And so supporting vaccination programs, especially for measles; we are concerned that cholera and malaria will be on the rise. And this is so urgent for children under five who are already weakened by malnutrition to have access to these health programs as well as to clean water.”
Ms. Lindborg adds that diseases carried by water can cause serious problems during droughts, famines or natural disasters.
NANCY LINDBORG: “Finally, we are working on programs that increase access to markets. Where there is food available in the markets but it’s simply too expensive for families to afford without some assistance programs.”
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