To increase food security and promote better livelihoods.

Our program focuses on empowering communities including minorities and other vulnerable community members through food security & livelihood programs and other essential services.

Food security, or rather insecurity, is at the heart of food crises and food-related emergencies.

It is fundamental cause of malnutrition and mortality and important factor in longer-term livelihood security. Food insecurity may cause irreversible damage to livelihoods of the local communities, thereby reducing self-sufficiency. It’s therefore part of the process leading to malnutrition, morbidity and increase in mortality rate particularly children and elderly.

In addition, state of being food insecure directly donates to the penury and damaged livelihoods in the long term. In other words, if there is acute food insecurity, there is a nutritional risk.

Majority of research examining food insecurity in general and its effects on health outcomes have concentrated on children. This research has found that food insecurity is associated with increased risks of some birth defects anemia, lower nutrient intakes, cognitive problems and aggression and anxiety.

However, some of the studies in this limited set have shown that food insecurity is also associated with decreased nutrient intakes, increased rates of mental health problems and depression. In terms of effect sizes, mothers who are food insecure are over twice as likely to report mental health problems 10 and over three times as likely to report oral health problems, compared to their food-secure peers.

Through our food security and livelihood program, we work to build the resilience of target communities to the impacts of climate change on food security and their livelihoods.

Our program incorporates a wide collection of activities customized to meet community’s specific needs that are designed to bolster agriculture production, facilitate market access, support micro-enterprise initiatives and enhance vulnerable communities’ access to sustainable sources of food and income security. We provide our communities with a systematic approach to identifying, assessing and reducing disaster risks.

In regard to this Aid-Afrika tried to improve the livelihoods of 60 youth through capacity building and life skills training to increase youth entrepreneurship skills and self-reliance.