How Nutrition Support Saved Ahmad's Life

Two-year-old Ahmad was the third child in a family displaced from Kunawa to an IDP camp in Goronyo, Sokoto State. A routine MUAC screening placed him in the yellow zone: moderate acute malnutrition. His mother, struggling with limited resources and gaps in her knowledge of complementary feeding, could not give him what he needed on her own.

Through the US Government-funded programme, Ahmad and his mother were enrolled in a 12-week nutrition programme within a caregivers' support group. She learned hands-on how to prepare Tom Brown, a nutritious, locally made complementary food, alongside hygiene practices and age-appropriate child feeding.

Week by week she applied what she had learned. Week by week, Ahmad changed.

"Yanzu na koyi yadda zan hada abinci mai gina jiki ga ɗana." (Now I have learned how to prepare nutritious food for my child.)

Ahmad's mother

Ahmad's MUAC moved from the yellow zone to green: normal nutritional status. He is one of 500 children enrolled in the Tom Brown programme that LHI piloted across Goronyo, Rabah, Isa and Sabon Birni, where no other programme was managing moderate acute malnutrition.

Funded by the Office of Humanitarian Assistance (OHA), United States Government, through the International Rescue Committee. From Restoring Hope, North West Lives.